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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

370 Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:370
AUTHOR:Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
QUOTATION:Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
Her lips suck forth my soul: 1 see, where it flies!
ATTRIBUTION:Faustus.
 
Note 1.
Once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips.
Alfred Tennyson: Fatima, stanza 3. [back]
 


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