Studies of Some of Robert Browning's PoemsSunday School Association, 1893 - 180 páginas |
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... show . He professes to ridicule the wild story that Lazarus tells about an Incarnate God who , years ago , lived in Palestine , and raised him from the dead ; and yet the sceptic cannot help betraying how he is fascinated by the very ...
... show . He professes to ridicule the wild story that Lazarus tells about an Incarnate God who , years ago , lived in Palestine , and raised him from the dead ; and yet the sceptic cannot help betraying how he is fascinated by the very ...
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... ; and yet with all their variety , we may describe them as an unfolding of the book of human life . The real life of man behind the transient shows , —that is what they reveal . Popes and kings , saints and 38 ROBERT BROWNING'S POEMS.
... ; and yet with all their variety , we may describe them as an unfolding of the book of human life . The real life of man behind the transient shows , —that is what they reveal . Popes and kings , saints and 38 ROBERT BROWNING'S POEMS.
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... shows us how the moral sense can be paralyzed by pleas which the understanding pronounces unanswerable . When once the light which is in us is darkened by a fog of sophistries , then how great is that darkness in which the soul goes ...
... shows us how the moral sense can be paralyzed by pleas which the understanding pronounces unanswerable . When once the light which is in us is darkened by a fog of sophistries , then how great is that darkness in which the soul goes ...
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... shows of time that can claim an eternal destiny ? In A Toccata of Galuppi's he says : - The soul doubtless is immortal - where a soul can be discerned . To use the splendid irony of St. Paul , Browning has no patience with the man who ...
... shows of time that can claim an eternal destiny ? In A Toccata of Galuppi's he says : - The soul doubtless is immortal - where a soul can be discerned . To use the splendid irony of St. Paul , Browning has no patience with the man who ...
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... shows the real triumph of lives which outwardly appear to be failures . Sordello , dying in the wrestle of conflicting motives , with the Emperor's badge under his feet , reaches a sublime victory , compared with which a long life of ...
... shows the real triumph of lives which outwardly appear to be failures . Sordello , dying in the wrestle of conflicting motives , with the Emperor's badge under his feet , reaches a sublime victory , compared with which a long life of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abt Vogler Anael Andrea Del Sarto artist Asolo beauty Bible Browning Browning's chapel character Christ Christian Cimabue Cloth 6d creation creatures Dark Tower darkness death deed destiny divine Djabal doctrine doom dreadful Druses earth earthly Essex Hall eternal exaltation eyes faith feel flesh Florence Fra Lippo Lippi gift Giotto give glory God's Hakeem heart heaven human Hymn ideal immortal impulse infinite Jules Khalil Lessons life's lives looks lover Loys man's Master mind moral nature never Nuncio Ottima outward painting Paracelsus passion perfect picture Pippa passes poem poet Prefect religion religious revelation ROBERT BROWNING says Sebald secret seems Sewed 2d song Sordello soul spiritual story SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION supreme teachers teaching tells thee Theodore Parker things thinks thou art thought toccata Toccata of Galuppi's truth verse vision voice wife woman wonder words worship young
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Página 59 - 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 143 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Página 59 - Fear death ? to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, - The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Página 106 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein as in a mirror we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period...
Página 124 - In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool. Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Página 58 - No, indeed, for God above Is great to grant, as mighty to make ; And creates the love to reward the love : I claim you still, for my own love's sake...
Página 102 - I am named and known by that moment's feat ; There took my station and degree ; So grew my own small life complete, As nature obtained her best of me — One born to love you, sweet...
Página 144 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Página 21 - That still, despite the distance and the dark, What was, again may be ; some interchange Of grace, some splendour once thy very thought, Some benediction anciently thy smile...
Página 33 - I know not too well how I found my way home in the night. There were witnesses, cohorts about me, to left and to right, Angels, powers, the unuttered, unseen, the alive, the aware...