Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth26 February 1564
draw miles pampered twenty
Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia! / What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?
scourge
For Tamburlaine, the scourge of God, must die.
infinite riches wealth
As their wealth increaseth, so enclose / Infinite riches in a little room.
immortal kiss kisses-and-kissing sweet
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss
fly india ocean
I'll have them fly to India for gold, / Ransack the ocean for orient pearl.
forth heaven immortal kisses-and-kissing lips soul suck sweet
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
forth heaven immortal lips soul suck sweet
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
bare cease hour midnight stand thou time
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live / And then thou must be damned perpetually! / Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,/ That time may cease and midnight never come.
burn ugly
Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! / I'll burn my books!
fifty greatest-love influence
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
kings sunshine perfect
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
lost
Things that are not at all, are never lost.
dance men feet
My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
beauty ethics goodness
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.