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. Dramatis Personae - Page 73by Robert Browning - 1864 - 250 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1881 - 1046 pages
...away ? Is all this wasted power ? Does the Spirit of God inspire all this in vain ? It cannot be. ' All we have willed, or hoped, or dreamed of good, shall exist.' If any of us have a true thought, let us be sure that somehow, somewhere, sometime, that thought shall... | |
| 1901 - 744 pages
...not exclude, but welcomes — as light and as air — the sublime deduction by Robert Browning : " All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall...itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power, Whose voice hus gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour."... | |
| 1882 - 844 pages
...much good more ; On the earth the broken arcs, in the heaven a perfect round. All we have willed nr hoped or dreamed of, good, shall exist ; Not its semblance,...When eternity affirms the conception of an hour ! The key-note of this passage is a vivid faith in a loving God, who gathers up the broken threads of his... | |
| 1905 - 1004 pages
...mordant irony Is always audible. His theme Is the conflict between the world's shrewd common-sense and "the high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard," and handling It, he forgets the frontiers of the child's creatures they are. I am thankful' "— O... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...There shall never be one lost good ! What was, shall live as before ; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound ; What was good, shall be...or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its likeness, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...There shall never be one lost good ! What was, shall live as before ; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound ; What was good, shall be...or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its likeness, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives... | |
| 1865 - 826 pages
...with, for evil, so much good more, On the earth the broken arcs ; in the heaven, a perfect round. " All we have willed, or hoped, or dreamed of good,...Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception... | |
| Henrietta Keddie - 1866 - 332 pages
...good, with the evil, so much good more ; On the earth the broken arcs, in the heaven a perfect round ; All we have willed, or hoped, or dreamed of good, shall exist, Not its semblance, but itself !..... The high thai proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground... | |
| 1899 - 974 pages
...preached in our own day by Browning : "No beauty, nor good, nor power, When voice has gone forth, bat each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an honr." It waa taught by Goethe in " Wilhelm Meister," where the uncle of the devout lady, in the eighth... | |
| Matilda Betham-Edwards - 1867 - 328 pages
...dreaming how I should one day discover nothing to be truer than poetic fiction. For, as Browning says, — All we have willed, or hoped, or dreamed, of good shall exist, Not its semblance, but itself ; and I was no sooner in Algeria than I seemed to hear story after story added to the Thousand and... | |
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