An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryD. C. Heath & Company, 1886 - 338 pages |
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Page vii
... better essence than itself in weakness . " The notes to the poems will be found , I trust , to cover all points and features of the text which require explanation and elucidation . I have not , at any rate , wittingly passed by any real ...
... better essence than itself in weakness . " The notes to the poems will be found , I trust , to cover all points and features of the text which require explanation and elucidation . I have not , at any rate , wittingly passed by any real ...
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... better , " and there an end . The great function of the poet , as poet , is , with Browning , to open out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape , not to effect entry for a light supposed to be without ; to trace back the ...
... better , " and there an end . The great function of the poet , as poet , is , with Browning , to open out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape , not to effect entry for a light supposed to be without ; to trace back the ...
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... better balancing , which will be brought about , of the intellectual and the spiritual . Each will have its due activity . The man of intellectual pursuits will not have a starved spiritual nature ; and the man of predominant spiritual ...
... better balancing , which will be brought about , of the intellectual and the spiritual . Each will have its due activity . The man of intellectual pursuits will not have a starved spiritual nature ; and the man of predominant spiritual ...
Page 51
... better thing behind " — he is " deposed from his kingly throne , and his glory is taken from him . " Of himself , Sordello says : " The power he took most pride to test , whereby all forms of life had been professed at pleasure , forms ...
... better thing behind " — he is " deposed from his kingly throne , and his glory is taken from him . " Of himself , Sordello says : " The power he took most pride to test , whereby all forms of life had been professed at pleasure , forms ...
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... better , perhaps , than any other great author that ever lived — know , in the deepest sense of the word , in a sense other than that in which we know Dr. Johnson , through Boswell's Biography . The moral proportion which is so signal a ...
... better , perhaps , than any other great author that ever lived — know , in the deepest sense of the word , in a sense other than that in which we know Dr. Johnson , through Boswell's Biography . The moral proportion which is so signal a ...
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Page 22 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man. Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. 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...
Page 274 - Therefore to whom turn I but to thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same? Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before...
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 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 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 321 - Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle 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, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
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 266 - To comfort me on my entablature Whereon I am to lie till I must ask " Do I live, am I dead?" There, leave me, there ! For ye have stabbed me with ingratitude To death — ye wish it — God, ye wish it ! Stone...
Page 242 - That arm is wrongly put — and there again A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak: its soul is right, He means right - that, a child may understand.
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!