Browning, Poet and Man: A SurveyG.P. Putnam's sons, 1899 - 282 pages |
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Page 38
... beauty in the poem ; that the thought when once perceived is seldom trivial , though not by any means always tremendous , and that the moral problem involved the forcing of the will through intellectual sophistries to a definite choice ...
... beauty in the poem ; that the thought when once perceived is seldom trivial , though not by any means always tremendous , and that the moral problem involved the forcing of the will through intellectual sophistries to a definite choice ...
Page 69
... beauty , which probably refers to her . Her daughter de- scribes her as " one of those women who never can resist , but in submitting and bowing on themselves , make a mark , a plait , within - a Elizabeth Barrett . 69.
... beauty , which probably refers to her . Her daughter de- scribes her as " one of those women who never can resist , but in submitting and bowing on themselves , make a mark , a plait , within - a Elizabeth Barrett . 69.
Page 91
... beauty and repose , where they lived simply and worked worthily , ap- peal to the most restricted imagination . It was during this period that Sonnets from the Portuguese were shown to Browning , and the little account by Mr. Gosse ...
... beauty and repose , where they lived simply and worked worthily , ap- peal to the most restricted imagination . It was during this period that Sonnets from the Portuguese were shown to Browning , and the little account by Mr. Gosse ...
Page 142
... beauty of certain portions , and the chivalrous and noble defence of the wronged child , Pompilia , the whole unutterably vulgar tragedy be- longs to the bad days of Italy , when crime alone seemed universally interesting . John Ruskin ...
... beauty of certain portions , and the chivalrous and noble defence of the wronged child , Pompilia , the whole unutterably vulgar tragedy be- longs to the bad days of Italy , when crime alone seemed universally interesting . John Ruskin ...
Page 167
... beauty ; sadly he owns that he is at best only a shareholder in his wife's affections , that even her pride in him is gone , that she neither understands nor cares to understand his art . He tells her that he can do easily and perfectly ...
... beauty ; sadly he owns that he is at best only a shareholder in his wife's affections , that even her pride in him is gone , that she neither understands nor cares to understand his art . He tells her that he can do easily and perfectly ...
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