...is done ; we have no heart To mar our work,' we cried." This ballad Paracelsus subsequently calls " The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride." The dialogue that follows is, in parts, highly poetical — the conclusion is pathetic. See how he...

...Browning's noblest lyric. Paracelsus sings it, and it embodies the story of his life's failure. It is — " The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride." The unbalanced activity of his intellect sallied forth impetuously after knowledge ; unbalanced by...

...view, Along the shore my hand is on its pulse, And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew. HD THOKEAU. The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. OVER the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding...

...view, Along the shore my hand is on its pulse, And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew. HD THOREAC. The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and wither' d in their pride. OVEB the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding...

...Glorious fountain ! Let my heart be Fresh, changeful, constant, Upward, like thee ! JR Lowell. XXXII. " The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and perished in their pride." • OVER the seas our galleys went. Cleaving prows, in order brave, With...

...a delightful poem, full of romantic adventure and perpetually suggestive of Browning's lines: — " The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault and withered in their pride." After long and weary years they come to the nameless city where they met this sympathetic welcome;...

...is the wail of the Nineteenth Century that one hears in Browning's Paracelsus ; most of all in that Sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. Over the sea the galleys bore the pilgrims seeking the promised island where they should build their...

...a delightful poem, full of romantic adventure and perpetually suggestive of Browning's lines : — "The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault and withered in their pride." After long and weary years they come to the nameless city where they met this sympathetic welcome;...

...delightful poem, full of romantic adventure and perpetually suggestive of Browning's lines : — " The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault and withered m their pride." After long and weary years they come to the nameless city where they met this sympathetic...

...a delightful poem, full of romantic adventure and perpetually suggestive of Browning's lines : — "The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault and withered in their pride." After long and weary years they come to the nameless city where they met this sympathetic welcome;...