| Robert Browning - 1830 - 426 pages
...sings to Saul, in the poem entitled 'Saul.' Was the full physical life ever more beautifully sung ? " Oh ! our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels...is stopped in its playing, nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the^wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...vigour ! — No spirit feels waste, No muscle is stopped in its playing, No sinew unbraced ; — And the wild joys of living ! The leaping From rock up to rock — The rending their boughs from the palm-trees, — The cool silver shock Of a plunge in the pool's living... | |
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...still hung there erect. And I bent once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, As I sang, — 9. " Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste,...— The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 684 pages
...of that rich picturesque genre which marks some of the poet's happiest earlier works ; for example : Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock...— The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 686 pages
...of that rich picturesque genre which marks some of the poet's happiest earlier works ; for example : Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock...— The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water,— the hunt of the bear, And the... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 704 pages
...victim was at home in his bed. Whenever I think of Calverly I think of fun and good fellowship ; of the ' wild joys of living ; the leaping from rock up to rock ; the cool silver shock of the plunge in the pool's li ving water ; ' of health and youth and strength. Alas,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...hung there erect. And I bent once again to my playing, pursued it unchecked, As I sang, — • IX. " Oh, our manhood's prime vigour! no spirit feels waste,...— The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the... | |
| 478 pages
...friends, troubles, and annoyances for a time, and give themselves up to the pure enjoyment of living. "The wild joys of living! The leaping From rock up to rock — The rending their boughs from the palm-trees, The cool silver shock Of a plunge in the pool's living water.... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! — No spirit feels waste, No muscle is stopped in its playing, And the wild joys of living ! The leaping From rock up to rock — The rending their boughs from the palm-trees, — The cool silver shock Of a plunge in the pool's living... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...do so ; but Mr. Browning's intense enjoyment is peculiar, and very characteristic of the man : — Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock...— The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the... | |
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