The Poetry of Robert BrowningT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1902 - 447 páginas |
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... Mantua , Verona , and forgotten towns among the Apennines painted with happy love in verse , but not an English town nor an English village . The flowers , the hills , the ways of the streams , the talk of the woods , the doings of the ...
... Mantua , Verona , and forgotten towns among the Apennines painted with happy love in verse , but not an English town nor an English village . The flowers , the hills , the ways of the streams , the talk of the woods , the doings of the ...
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... Mantua . Dante drew after him the greatest minds in Italy , and yet is sung to - day by the shepherds and peasants of the hill - villages of Tuscany . Shakespeare pleases the most selected spirits of the world and the galleries of the ...
... Mantua . Dante drew after him the greatest minds in Italy , and yet is sung to - day by the shepherds and peasants of the hill - villages of Tuscany . Shakespeare pleases the most selected spirits of the world and the galleries of the ...
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... main landscape of Sordello is the plain and the low pine - clad hills around Mantua ; the half- circle of the deep lagoon which enarms the battlemented town ; and the river Mincio , seen by THE TREATMENT OF NATURE 101.
... main landscape of Sordello is the plain and the low pine - clad hills around Mantua ; the half- circle of the deep lagoon which enarms the battlemented town ; and the river Mincio , seen by THE TREATMENT OF NATURE 101.
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... Mantua , built in a gorge of the low hills , and the description of the scenery of the castle , without and within , is one example of the fine ornament of which Sordello is so full . There this rich and fertile nature lives , fit to ...
... Mantua , built in a gorge of the low hills , and the description of the scenery of the castle , without and within , is one example of the fine ornament of which Sordello is so full . There this rich and fertile nature lives , fit to ...
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... Mantua and make song for the crowd of men ; he invents in dreams a host of sympathisers , all of whom are but himself in other forms . Even when he aims at perfection , and , making himself Apollo , longs for a Daphne to double his life ...
... Mantua and make song for the crowd of men ; he invents in dreams a host of sympathisers , all of whom are but himself in other forms . Even when he aims at perfection , and , making himself Apollo , longs for a Daphne to double his life ...
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Página 440 - AT the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where — by death, fools think, imprisoned — Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so, — Pity me ? Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!
Página 28 - OH, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now...
Página 79 - Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away!
Página 289 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Página 310 - This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
Página 150 - 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.
Página 306 - tis past midnight, and you go the rounds, And here you catch me at an alley's end Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar? The Carmine's my cloister: hunt it up, Do, — harry out, if you must show your zeal, Whatever rat, there, haps...
Página 300 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here!
Página 140 - If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time ; I press God's lamp Close to my breast — its splendour, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom : I shall emerge one day ! You understand me ? I have said enough ? Fest.
Página 29 - SEA. Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay ; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay ; In the dimmest North-East distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...