The Poetical Works of Robert Browning ...Smith, Elder and Company, 1879 |
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... truths were told me , all at once , To end the sooner . What I simply styled Their overlooking me , had been contempt : How should the Duke employ himself , forsooth , With such an one , while lordly Philip rode By him their Turin ...
... truths were told me , all at once , To end the sooner . What I simply styled Their overlooking me , had been contempt : How should the Duke employ himself , forsooth , With such an one , while lordly Philip rode By him their Turin ...
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... truth for once : and who ' s ordained , but I To make that memorable ? Both in call , As he declared ! Were ' t better gnash the teeth , Or laugh outright now ? Cha . [ to POL . ] What's his visit for ? D'O . [ Aside . ] I question if ...
... truth for once : and who ' s ordained , but I To make that memorable ? Both in call , As he declared ! Were ' t better gnash the teeth , Or laugh outright now ? Cha . [ to POL . ] What's his visit for ? D'O . [ Aside . ] I question if ...
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... truth ? Cha . They dare not quite dethrone Sardinia's Prince : But they may descant on my dulness till They sting me into even praying them Grant leave to hide my head , resign my state , And end the coil . Not see now ? In a word ...
... truth ? Cha . They dare not quite dethrone Sardinia's Prince : But they may descant on my dulness till They sting me into even praying them Grant leave to hide my head , resign my state , And end the coil . Not see now ? In a word ...
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... truth . Were this as you believe , and I once sure Your duty lay in so renouncing rule , I could . . could ? Oh what happiness it were— To live , my Charles , and die , alone with you ! Ah- Cha . I grieve I asked you . To the presence ...
... truth . Were this as you believe , and I once sure Your duty lay in so renouncing rule , I could . . could ? Oh what happiness it were— To live , my Charles , and die , alone with you ! Ah- Cha . I grieve I asked you . To the presence ...
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... truth ; You , sir , may do as you affect — may break Your engine , me , to pieces : try at least If not a spring remain worth saving ! Take My counsel as I've counselled many times ! What if the Spaniard and the Austrian threat ...
... truth ; You , sir , may do as you affect — may break Your engine , me , to pieces : try at least If not a spring remain worth saving ! Take My counsel as I've counselled many times ! What if the Spaniard and the Austrian threat ...
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Page 76 - Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Page 78 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Page 141 - Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 102 - THE gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i
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.
Page 210 - O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
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...