Select Poems of Robert BrowningHarper, 1894 - 200 páginas |
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... turning us into flat valetudinarians . Our public is be- ginning to measure the right and possible in art by the super- ficial probabilities of life and manners within a ten - mile ra- dius of Charing Cross . Is it likely , asks the ...
... turning us into flat valetudinarians . Our public is be- ginning to measure the right and possible in art by the super- ficial probabilities of life and manners within a ten - mile ra- dius of Charing Cross . Is it likely , asks the ...
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... turns on his finding that in the very perfection which he had attained lies ultimate failure . And one entire poem , Andrea del Sarto , has been devoted to the exposition of this thought . " A man's reach should exceed his grasp , Or ...
... turns on his finding that in the very perfection which he had attained lies ultimate failure . And one entire poem , Andrea del Sarto , has been devoted to the exposition of this thought . " A man's reach should exceed his grasp , Or ...
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... though I stand forever- more 30 Poor as Job and meek as Moses . Evermore ? No ! By and by Job grows rich and Moses valiant , Clive turns out less wise than I. Don't object ' Why call him friend , then ? 40 ROBERT BROWNING .
... though I stand forever- more 30 Poor as Job and meek as Moses . Evermore ? No ! By and by Job grows rich and Moses valiant , Clive turns out less wise than I. Don't object ' Why call him friend , then ? 40 ROBERT BROWNING .
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... turn , years hence , When my boy - suppose I have one - asks me on what evi- dence I maintain my friend of Plassy proved a warrior every whit Worth your Alexanders , Cæsars , Marlboroughs , and — what said Pitt ? - 70 Frederick the ...
... turn , years hence , When my boy - suppose I have one - asks me on what evi- dence I maintain my friend of Plassy proved a warrior every whit Worth your Alexanders , Cæsars , Marlboroughs , and — what said Pitt ? - 70 Frederick the ...
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... up and use it on myself . I so had gained Sleep the earlier , leaving England probably to pay on still Rent and taxes for half India , tenant at the Frenchman's will . ' ' Such the turn , ' said I , ' 50 ROBERT BROWNING .
... up and use it on myself . I so had gained Sleep the earlier , leaving England probably to pay on still Rent and taxes for half India , tenant at the Frenchman's will . ' ' Such the turn , ' said I , ' 50 ROBERT BROWNING .
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Página 61 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Página 52 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace, Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Página 177 - AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new...
Página 99 - And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!
Página 62 - Rejoice we are allied To That which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive! A spark disturbs our clod; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe.
Página 99 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Página 59 - Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off, And Moses with the tables . . . but I know Ye mark me not! What do they whisper thee, Child of my bowels, Anselm?
Página 56 - Life's night begins: let him never come back to us! There would be doubt, hesitation and pain, Forced praise on our part — the glimmer of twilight, Never glad confident morning again!
Página 65 - Here, work enough to watch The Master work, and catch Hints of the proper craft, tricks of the tool's true play.
Página 54 - Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets