...a second triumph o'er my life." , There is nothing of this dignity in the incantations of Marlow's FaustuS) which belong to the contemporary period of the English stage, nor do we feel the same sympathy with the armed head raised by the weird sisters, to answer Macbeth's guilty...

...measured when we read the judgment of the frigid Ticknor on the invocation of the corpse by Marquino : " There is nothing of so much dignity in the incantations of Marlowe's P'austus . . . nor does even Shakespeare demand from us a sympathy so strange with the mortal head...

...the incantations of Marlowe's Faustus." Still more amazing is Ticknor's second appreciation : — " Nor does even Shakspeare demand from us a sympathy...endure a second time the pangs of dissolution." The school is decently interred which mistook critics for Civil Service Commissioners, and Parnassus for...

...of this passage is imposing ; yet we perceive rhetoric to be contagious when Ticknor asserts that " there is nothing of so much dignity in the incantations of Marlowe's Faustus" Still more amazing is Ticknor's second appreciation : — " Nor does even Shakspeare demand from us...