Browning, Poet and Man: A SurveyG.P. Putnam's sons, 1902 - 282 pages |
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... True alchemy , " he said , " has but one aim and object , to extract the quintessence of things and to prepare arcana , tinctures , and elixirs which may restore to man the health and soundness he has lost . " Even his bitterest ...
... True alchemy , " he said , " has but one aim and object , to extract the quintessence of things and to prepare arcana , tinctures , and elixirs which may restore to man the health and soundness he has lost . " Even his bitterest ...
Page 35
... true poet placed in such an environment might develop . The narrative , not the dramatic , form is chosen for the poem , apparently with the idea of ap- peasing the critics . In the opening lines the poet deprecates the necessity of ...
... true poet placed in such an environment might develop . The narrative , not the dramatic , form is chosen for the poem , apparently with the idea of ap- peasing the critics . In the opening lines the poet deprecates the necessity of ...
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... true domain , any more than the theatre in which he multiplied his fruitless attempts , to which he brought too much individual psychology and too many moral analyses . He was moved to revive the men of the past , not to set them in ...
... true domain , any more than the theatre in which he multiplied his fruitless attempts , to which he brought too much individual psychology and too many moral analyses . He was moved to revive the men of the past , not to set them in ...
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