An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryD.C. Heath, 1886 - 367 pages |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... gain it , catching at mistake , As midway help till he reach fact indeed . The statuary ere he mould a shape Boasts a like gift , the shape's idea , and next The aspiration to produce the same ; So , taking clay , he calls his shape ...
... gain it , catching at mistake , As midway help till he reach fact indeed . The statuary ere he mould a shape Boasts a like gift , the shape's idea , and next The aspiration to produce the same ; So , taking clay , he calls his shape ...
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... gain , greedy for quick returns_of profit , sure , bad is our bargain " ( A Grammarian's Funeral ' ) . able mass . ' An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experiences of Karshish , the Arab Physician , ' is one of Browning's most ...
... gain , greedy for quick returns_of profit , sure , bad is our bargain " ( A Grammarian's Funeral ' ) . able mass . ' An Epistle containing the Strange Medical Experiences of Karshish , the Arab Physician , ' is one of Browning's most ...
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... gain my wisdom strove to grasp . Into another state , under new rule I knew myself was pass- ing swift and sure ; whereof the initiatory pang approached , felici- tous annoy , as bitter - sweet as when the virgin band , the victors ...
... gain my wisdom strove to grasp . Into another state , under new rule I knew myself was pass- ing swift and sure ; whereof the initiatory pang approached , felici- tous annoy , as bitter - sweet as when the virgin band , the victors ...
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... gains Of an old one only , made intense By a fresh appeal to his faded sense . " If all Christendom could take this remarkable poem of ' Christ- mas Eve ' to its heart , its tolerance , its Catholic spirit , and , more than all , the ...
... gains Of an old one only , made intense By a fresh appeal to his faded sense . " If all Christendom could take this remarkable poem of ' Christ- mas Eve ' to its heart , its tolerance , its Catholic spirit , and , more than all , the ...
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Page 18 - 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 288 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 188 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 270 - 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 267 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Page 337 - 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 270 - 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 17 - 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 216 - HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA. Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay ; In the dimmest North-East distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...
Page 327 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for ! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead ! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!