An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryD.C. Heath & Company, 1830 - 367 pages |
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... proved . What we are concerned with , is , Christianity as it is now : as a religion which the human mind has through many generations developed , purified , spiritualized ; and which has reacted upon human nature and made it wiser and ...
... proved . What we are concerned with , is , Christianity as it is now : as a religion which the human mind has through many generations developed , purified , spiritualized ; and which has reacted upon human nature and made it wiser and ...
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... proving false , still promise to be true ) Up to an outer soul as individual too ; And , through the fleeting , lives to die into the fixed , And reach at length ' God , man , or both together mixed . ' ” In his poem entitled ...
... proving false , still promise to be true ) Up to an outer soul as individual too ; And , through the fleeting , lives to die into the fixed , And reach at length ' God , man , or both together mixed . ' ” In his poem entitled ...
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... prove twice what once was proved . " And again : " Man knows partly but conceives beside , Creeps ever on from fancies to the fact , And in this striving , this converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use , Finds progress , man's ...
... prove twice what once was proved . " And again : " Man knows partly but conceives beside , Creeps ever on from fancies to the fact , And in this striving , this converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use , Finds progress , man's ...
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... prove right , - new feeling fresh from God whose life re - teaches them what life should be , what faith is , loyalty and simpleness , all once revealed , but taught them so long since that they have but mere tradition of the fact ...
... prove right , - new feeling fresh from God whose life re - teaches them what life should be , what faith is , loyalty and simpleness , all once revealed , but taught them so long since that they have but mere tradition of the fact ...
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... proved him her copier , not the protoplast of nature what could come of being free by action to exhibit tree for tree , bird , beast , for beast and bird , or prove earth bore one veritable man or woman more ? Means to an end such ...
... proved him her copier , not the protoplast of nature what could come of being free by action to exhibit tree for tree , bird , beast , for beast and bird , or prove earth bore one veritable man or woman more ? Means to an end such ...
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Page 292 - 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 22 - 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 noble words...
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 289 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 331 - 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!
Page 242 - Though they come back and cannot tell the world. My works are nearer heaven, but I sit here. The sudden blood of these men ! at a word — Praise them, it boils, or blame them, it boils too. I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.