 Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss ? O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands,...  The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes ... - Page 111by Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1865 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marion Gibson - History - 2003 - 288 pages
...Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss? O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands, Which strike a terror to... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
...was who had said Why this is hell, nor am I out of it, Thinkst thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells?" The second version of this topos is even more terrifying: Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed... | |
 | George Anastaplo - History - 2004 - 524 pages
...Faustus (p. 366): Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss? O Faustus. leave these frivolous demands Which strike a terror to my... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - Drama - 2004 - 350 pages
...Christian faith: 'Think'st thou', Mephistopheles says to Faustus, 'that I, who saw the face of God / And tasted the eternal joys of heaven / Am not tormented with ten thousand hells / In being deprived of everlasting bliss? (DF 'A' text 1.3.77-80). Yet, at another point, that same sensibility... | |
 | Tod E. Jones - Philosophy - 2005 - 180 pages
...of hell? Meph.: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented...thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss? 122 In Mephistopheles's reply we find the implication that "hell" is not a positive infliction, but... | |
 | Margaret Kean - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 196 pages
...something similar, 'Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it./ Thinkst thou that I, who saw the face of God, / And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, / Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, / In being deprived of everlasting bliss?' (A text. I iii 78-82). Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus. A- and... | |
 | Patricia Ingham - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 295 pages
...seducer answers, Why, this is hell nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented...thousand hells In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?' Similarly, Catherine and Heathcliff define their worst suffering as the mental torment caused by the... | |
 | Asenath Mason - 2006 - 76 pages
...seems completely unhappy and melancholic of his existence: "Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss?" The hell presented by him is not the traditional Christian image of... | |
 | Robert Zaller - History - 2007 - 844 pages
...against himself: Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it. ... Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven Am not tormented...thousand Hells In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss? (1.3.73-77) The image of spiritual torment in these lines would have no equal until Milton; in the... | |
 | Trevor A. Hart, Ivan Khovacs - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 146 pages
...of hell?" Meph. Wliy this is hell, nor am I out of it. Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented...ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?17 Who now can feel the inconsolable ache in these devilish lines? It is a commonplace among... | |
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