The Poetical Works of Robert Browning ...Smith, Elder and Company, 1879 |
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... laughed a moment's laugh for pride In the chivalrous couple , then let drop My curtain- " I am out of it , " I said— When Pol . Cha . You have told me , Charles ! Polyxena- When suddenly , —a warm March day , just that ! Just so much ...
... laughed a moment's laugh for pride In the chivalrous couple , then let drop My curtain- " I am out of it , " I said— When Pol . Cha . You have told me , Charles ! Polyxena- When suddenly , —a warm March day , just that ! Just so much ...
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... laughing - stock . Something , ' t is like , about that weary business [ Pointing to papers he has laid down , and which POLYXENA examines . -Not that I comprehend three words , of course , After all last night's study . Pol . The faint ...
... laughing - stock . Something , ' t is like , about that weary business [ Pointing to papers he has laid down , and which POLYXENA examines . -Not that I comprehend three words , of course , After all last night's study . Pol . The faint ...
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... laugh outright now ? Cha . [ to POL . ] What's his visit for ? D'O . [ Aside . ] I question if they even speak to me . Pol . [ to CHA . ] Face the man ! He'll suppose you fear him , else . [ Aloud . ] The Marquis bears the King's ...
... laugh outright now ? Cha . [ to POL . ] What's his visit for ? D'O . [ Aside . ] I question if they even speak to me . Pol . [ to CHA . ] Face the man ! He'll suppose you fear him , else . [ Aloud . ] The Marquis bears the King's ...
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... laughed at her : my name was left , my sword Left , all was left ! But she can take , she knows , This crown , herself conceded . . That's to try , Kind Europe ! My career ' s not closed as yet ! This boy was ever subject to my will ...
... laughed at her : my name was left , my sword Left , all was left ! But she can take , she knows , This crown , herself conceded . . That's to try , Kind Europe ! My career ' s not closed as yet ! This boy was ever subject to my will ...
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... laughter follow The coin you fling into his cap ! And last , Some bright morn , how men crowd about the midst O ' the market - place , where takes the old king breath Ere with his crutch he strike the palace - gate Wide ope ! VOL . III ...
... laughter follow The coin you fling into his cap ! And last , Some bright morn , how men crowd about the midst O ' the market - place , where takes the old king breath Ere with his crutch he strike the palace - gate Wide ope ! VOL . III ...
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Page 159 - I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke. I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain, And pronounced on, the rest of his handwork, — returned him again His creation's approval or censure; I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work: all's love, yet all's law.
Page 147 - And I paused, held my breath in such silence, and listened apart; And the tent shook, for mighty Saul shuddered: and sparkles 'gan dart From the jewels that woke in his turban, at once with a start, All its lordly male-sapphires, and rubies courageous at heart. So the head: but the body still moved not, still hung there erect.
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Page 106 - Sixteen years old when she died ! Perhaps she had scarcely heard my name ; It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little cares, And now was quiet, now astir, Till God's hand beckoned unawares, — And the sweet white brow is all of her. in Is it too late then, Evelyn Hope ? What, your soul was pure and true, The good stars met in your horoscope, Made you of spirit, fire and dew...
Page 107 - Hope, what meant, I shall say, In the lower earth, in the years long still, That body and soul so pure and gay? Why your hair was amber, I shall divine, And your mouth of your own geranium's red, And what you would do with me, in fine, In the new life come in the old one's stead. I have lived, I shall say, so much since then, Given up myself so many times, Gained me the gains of various men, Ransacked the ages, spoiled the climes...
Page 110 - Overscored, While the patching houseleek's head of blossom winks Through the chinks — Marks the basement whence a tower in ancient time Sprang sublime, And a burning ring, all round, the chariots traced As they raced, And the monarch and his minions and his dames Viewed the games. V And I know, while thus the quiet-coloured eve Smiles to leave To their folding, all our...