Essays on Robert BrowningS. Sonnenschein, 1899 - 204 páginas |
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... quite plain on the second . Certainly most people can read with pleasure May and Death , Home Thoughts from Abroad , A Lost Mistress , or The Last Ride Together , long before Rabbi Ben Ezra . These are taken , not BROWNING'S PUBLIC . 13.
... quite plain on the second . Certainly most people can read with pleasure May and Death , Home Thoughts from Abroad , A Lost Mistress , or The Last Ride Together , long before Rabbi Ben Ezra . These are taken , not BROWNING'S PUBLIC . 13.
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... death and all things wear a different aspect for his handling . This is saying much ; but many will bear me out that these are the words of truth and sobriety . Exception may , it is true , be taken , and has been taken , to any such ...
... death and all things wear a different aspect for his handling . This is saying much ; but many will bear me out that these are the words of truth and sobriety . Exception may , it is true , be taken , and has been taken , to any such ...
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... death he has erected a triumphal arch , inscribed with the legend , — " This is the threshold of boundless life , " he shows us how , all the time , above this earth too , with all its dark places , is stretched the infinite expanse of ...
... death he has erected a triumphal arch , inscribed with the legend , — " This is the threshold of boundless life , " he shows us how , all the time , above this earth too , with all its dark places , is stretched the infinite expanse of ...
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... death , Lost in their ranks , eluding destiny . " But destiny chose for its instrument Festus , - patient , plodding Festus . He it was who , first E Festus Festus has been his respecte down noting some unusual PARACELSUS . 49.
... death , Lost in their ranks , eluding destiny . " But destiny chose for its instrument Festus , - patient , plodding Festus . He it was who , first E Festus Festus has been his respecte down noting some unusual PARACELSUS . 49.
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... death . How often is the true soul of a man hidden in this way from his fellow men : 66 -One man shall crawl / X Through life surrounded with all stirring things , Unmoved ; and he goes mad : and from the wreck Of what he was , by his ...
... death . How often is the true soul of a man hidden in this way from his fellow men : 66 -One man shall crawl / X Through life surrounded with all stirring things , Unmoved ; and he goes mad : and from the wreck Of what he was , by his ...
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Página 169 - What I see, what at bottom of my heart I wish for, if I ever wish so deep — Do easily, too — when I say, perfectly, I do not boast, perhaps: yourself are judge.
Página 182 - Do I find love so full in my nature, God's ultimate gift, That I doubt his own love can compete with it ? Here, the parts shift ? Here, the creature surpass the Creator, — the end, what Began ? Would I fain in my impotent yearning do all for this man. And dare doubt he alone shall not help him, who yet alone can ? Would it ever have entered my mind, the bare will, much less power.
Página 172 - Had you, with these the same, but brought a mind! Some women do so. Had the mouth there urged 'God and the glory! never care for gain. The present by the future, what is that? 'Live for fame, side by side with Agnolo! 'Rafael is waiting: up to God, all three!
Página 176 - I surely then could sometimes leave the ground, Put on the glory, Rafael's daily wear, In that humane great monarch's golden look...
Página 168 - All in a twilight, you and I alike — You, at the point of your first pride in me (That's gone, you know) but I, at every point; My youth, my hope, my art, being all toned down To yonder sober pleasant Fiesole.
Página 17 - 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?
Página 57 - I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not : but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Mich.
Página 117 - 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 170 - Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine. Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know, Reach many a time...
Página 63 - God renews His ancient rapture. Thus he dwells in all, From life's minute beginnings, up at last To man — the consummation of this scheme Of being, the completion of this sphere Of life...