An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryD.C. Heath, 1886 - 367 pages |
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... less and less . The exposition presented in the Intro- duction , of its constitution and skilful management , and the Arguments given of the several poems included in the volume , will , it is hoped , reduce , if not altogether remove ...
... less and less . The exposition presented in the Intro- duction , of its constitution and skilful management , and the Arguments given of the several poems included in the volume , will , it is hoped , reduce , if not altogether remove ...
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... less divorced from the essential , the eternal , and it directs itself to the shows of things . Such periods may embody in their literatures a large amount of thought , thought which is conversant with the externality of things ; but ...
... less divorced from the essential , the eternal , and it directs itself to the shows of things . Such periods may embody in their literatures a large amount of thought , thought which is conversant with the externality of things ; but ...
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... less distinctly , in a contemporary work , ' The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman . ' What the author calls " kind wit , " that is , " natural intelligence , " has , generally , the ascendency . We meet , however , with ...
... less distinctly , in a contemporary work , ' The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman . ' What the author calls " kind wit , " that is , " natural intelligence , " has , generally , the ascendency . We meet , however , with ...
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... less , influ- enced by that great moral convulsion , the French revolution , which stirred men's souls to their deepest depths , induced a vast stimulation of the meditative faculties , and contributed much toward the unfolding of the ...
... less , influ- enced by that great moral convulsion , the French revolution , which stirred men's souls to their deepest depths , induced a vast stimulation of the meditative faculties , and contributed much toward the unfolding of the ...
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... less marked than it has been heretofore , by reason of a better balancing , which will be brought about , of the intellectual and the spiritual . Each will have its due activity . The man of intellectual pursuits will not have a starved ...
... less marked than it has been heretofore , by reason of a better balancing , which will be brought about , of the intellectual and the spiritual . Each will have its due activity . The man of intellectual pursuits will not have a starved ...
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Abt Vogler Andrea del Sarto Arezzo artist beauty better Bishop Book breast Browning Soc Browning's poetry Cerinthus Christ Christian church Cimabue dead death divine Duchess Duke earth Edward Dowden expression eyes face feel flesh Florence flowers Fra Lippo Lippi Giotto give God's hand head heart heaven intellect Jacynth King learned life's Lippi live look man's Masaccio master means mind monologue nature never o'er once painter painting Paracelsus pass passion perfect picture play poem poet poet's poor praise Praxed's prize Rabbi Ben Ezra Ring Robert Browning round Saint Saul smile song Sordello soul soul's speak speaker spirit stanza sweet Taddeo Gaddi tell thee there's things thou thought TOCCATA OF GALUPPI'S tomb true truth turn Vasari Vaucluse verse what's wife word youth
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Page 22 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man. Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 274 - Therefore to whom turn I but to thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same? Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before...
Page 341 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 274 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist, When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 193 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 88 - Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have...
Page 21 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose. The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Page 286 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 337 - And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation : Neither shall they say, Lo here ! or, lo there ! for, Behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Page 330 - Could I wrestle to raise him from sorrow, grow poor to enrich, To fill up his life, starve my own out, I would — knowing which, I know that my service is perfect.