Christmas-eve and Easter-day and Other PoemsLothrop, 1886 - 175 páginas |
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... mind . If that goes out into blank non - activity at death , it is an absurdity beyond belief , the only instance of the destruction of a force . Browning is the first poet who has assimilated this theory completely . It comes forward ...
... mind . If that goes out into blank non - activity at death , it is an absurdity beyond belief , the only instance of the destruction of a force . Browning is the first poet who has assimilated this theory completely . It comes forward ...
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... mind is the supreme force , that personal character is the highest fruit of mind . The worth and permanence of the individual soul is re- vealed to him as a certainty . He stands in a throng of poets , some of whom commend us to nature ...
... mind is the supreme force , that personal character is the highest fruit of mind . The worth and permanence of the individual soul is re- vealed to him as a certainty . He stands in a throng of poets , some of whom commend us to nature ...
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... mind him , 30 Lot might have marched with Gomorrah behind him . II . Well , from the road , the lanes , or the common , In came the flock : the fat weary woman , Panting and bewildered , down - clapping Her umbrella with a mighty report ...
... mind him , 30 Lot might have marched with Gomorrah behind him . II . Well , from the road , the lanes , or the common , In came the flock : the fat weary woman , Panting and bewildered , down - clapping Her umbrella with a mighty report ...
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... mind continually . And the empty other half of the sky Seemed in its silence as if it knew What , any moment , might look through A chance gap in that fortress massy : · - 180 190 Through its fissures you got hints Of the flying moon ...
... mind continually . And the empty other half of the sky Seemed in its silence as if it knew What , any moment , might look through A chance gap in that fortress massy : · - 180 190 Through its fissures you got hints Of the flying moon ...
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... mind was full of the scene I had left , That placid flock , that pastor vociferant , How this outside was pure and different ! The sermon , now · what a mingled weft Of good and ill ! were either less , - 200 210 220 Its fellow had ...
... mind was full of the scene I had left , That placid flock , that pastor vociferant , How this outside was pure and different ! The sermon , now · what a mingled weft Of good and ill ! were either less , - 200 210 220 Its fellow had ...
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Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day: A Poem (Classic Reprint) Robert Browning Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abt Vogler Æschylus architrave Baldachin beauty believe borage brave breccia Browning speaks Browning's chapel choice choose Christ Christian Christmas-Eve Coleoptera creature dare dark Dark Tower David death Dionysus divine dost doubt dread dream earth earthly Easter-Day edition eternal evil eyes face faith fire flesh Gallio gift give God's Göttingen Greek fire hand head heart heaven hope human human voice immortality jerboa Julius Cæsar Karshish King Saul Lazarus leave life's light live looked Lord man's mind moral nature night o'er once pain perfect poem poet Pope praise probation prove Queen Mab rest Robert Browning round saith Sallust Saul sense Snake-stone song soul soul's spirit spoke stand stood struggle thee thing thou art Thou hast truth turn twixt version omits Vespasian voice whence whole wonder word worship xvii
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Página 9 - 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 163 - But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
Página 161 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Página 116 - Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Página 145 - 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 ! Face, My hands fashioned, see it in Myself.
Página 7 - Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know.
Página 109 - And so I live, you see, Go through the world, try, prove, reject, Prefer, still struggling to effect My warfare; happy that I can Be crossed and thwarted as a man, Not left in God's contempt apart, With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, Tame in earth's paddock as her prize.
Página 150 - But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Página 21 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for ! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead ! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Página 161 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...