An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryD.C. Heath, 1886 - 367 pages |
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... passes the limit of natural intelligence . The stories , which the poet drew from the ' Gesta Romanorum ' and numerous other sources , can hardly be said to have been born again . The verse is smooth and fluent , but the reader feels it ...
... passes the limit of natural intelligence . The stories , which the poet drew from the ' Gesta Romanorum ' and numerous other sources , can hardly be said to have been born again . The verse is smooth and fluent , but the reader feels it ...
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... pass their nature's bound , And find new hopes and cares which fast supplant Their proper1 joys and griefs ; and outgrow all The narrow creeds of right and wrong , which fade Before the unmeasured thirst for good ; while peace Rises ...
... pass their nature's bound , And find new hopes and cares which fast supplant Their proper1 joys and griefs ; and outgrow all The narrow creeds of right and wrong , which fade Before the unmeasured thirst for good ; while peace Rises ...
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... pass for truth and solid , not an empty lie . " The conclusion and the resolve he comes to , are expressed in the soliloquy which he repeats to the judges , as having uttered at the time : " So , he not only forged the words for her but ...
... pass for truth and solid , not an empty lie . " The conclusion and the resolve he comes to , are expressed in the soliloquy which he repeats to the judges , as having uttered at the time : " So , he not only forged the words for her but ...
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... pass- ing swift and sure ; whereof the initiatory pang approached , felici- tous annoy , as bitter - sweet as when the virgin band , the victors chaste , feel at the end the earthy garments drop , and rise with something of a rosy shame ...
... pass- ing swift and sure ; whereof the initiatory pang approached , felici- tous annoy , as bitter - sweet as when the virgin band , the victors chaste , feel at the end the earthy garments drop , and rise with something of a rosy shame ...
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... pass into the lives of men of all succeeding times . Cleon replies that if in the morning of philosophy , the King , with the light now in him , could have looked on all earth's tenantry , from worm to bird , ere man appeared , and if ...
... pass into the lives of men of all succeeding times . Cleon replies that if in the morning of philosophy , the King , with the light now in him , could have looked on all earth's tenantry , from worm to bird , ere man appeared , and if ...
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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!