How To Use Faustus In A Sentence
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There is a remarkable piece of dialogue on just this subject in Dr Faustus, although the ostensible topic is music.
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In Dr. Faustus Zeitbloom reflects: ‘[L] iars and lickspittles mixed us a poison draught and took away our senses.’
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Even the low-comedy scenes, in which Tom Smith's red-nosed Robin dabbles in devilry, emerge as a caustic reflection of Faustus's higher magic and demonstrate the futility of his quest for omnipotence.
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Faustus is ultimately damned and falls to hell.
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He noticed Lord Faustus, especially, laughing at him with a vulpine grin.
WATER BOOK TWO: REUNION
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Faustus and Helen does most conspicuously dilucidate the fermenting of the male and female dragon.
A Tale of a Tub
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The impiousness of the fishwife's final ambition links her with Marlowe's Faustus as well as with Lady Macbeth.
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It seems Faustus hears what the Evil Angel says, but tells himself that even if he were a devil, God will pity him if he repents.
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Dr. Faustus reveals man's frustration in realizing the high aspirations ina hostile moral order. And the confinement to time is the cruelest fact of man's condition.
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When they are alone, the Old Man pleads with Faustus to repent and be washed by the blood of the Savior, Christ.
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Six years later, in 1513, there is a mention of a “Georgius Faustus,” who is now described as “cheiromancer,” or palm reader, supposedly operating in Erfurt, fifteen miles from Weimar.
The Lampshade
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The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Here is not the swift impatient journeywork of a rough and ready hand; here is no sign of such compulsory hurry in the discharge of a task something less than welcome, if not of an imposition something less than tolerable, as we may rationally believe ourselves able to trace in great part of Marlowe's work: in the latter half of _The Jew of Malta_, in the burlesque interludes of _Doctor Faustus_, and wellnigh throughout the whole scheme and course of _The Massacre at Paris_.
A Study of Shakespeare
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Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann Mann's version of this much-imitated tale features a syphilitic composer called Adrian Leverkühn, who agrees a pact with Mephistopheles that guarantees him years of brilliance and musical creativity.
Ten of the best
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When they are alone, the Old Man pleads with Faustus to repent and be washed by the blood of the Savior, Christ.
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They certainly help to enhance a perspective that sees Faustus as a pawn between two more powerful forces.
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But he was well requited by Faustus, even with the like payment: for he said to him, "Thou dotish clown, void of all humanity, seeing thou art of so churlish a disposition, I will pay thee as thou hast deserved, for the four wheels of thy waggon thou shalt have taken from thee; let me see then how thou canst shift.
Mediaeval Tales
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Because Faustus has blasphemed against God in his incantations, Mephistophilis has come to see if he can claim Faustus' soul.
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Faustus craunched his teeth while the monk was saying all these noble things about the countenance of the Devil, who turning coolly to the physiognomist, said,
Faust's Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt. English
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The one thing that he accomplished was to depict the ruin of an heroic nature through an insatiable ambition for supremacy, doomed by its own vastitude to defeat itself, -- supremacy of conquest and dominion with Tamburlaine, supremacy of knowledge with Dr. Faustus, supremacy of wealth with Barabas, the Jew of
The Theory of the Theatre
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They certainly help to enhance a perspective that sees Faustus as a pawn between two more powerful forces.