The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning, Volumen1Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 |
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... art bound to or gifts above measure ) One of thy choices or one of thy chances , ( Be they tasks God imposed thee or freaks at thy pleasure ) - - My Day , if I squander such labor or leisure , Then shame fall on Asolo , mischief on me ...
... art bound to or gifts above measure ) One of thy choices or one of thy chances , ( Be they tasks God imposed thee or freaks at thy pleasure ) - - My Day , if I squander such labor or leisure , Then shame fall on Asolo , mischief on me ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Asolo aught Aureole Azzo Basel beside brow calm Charles crown D'Ormea dare dead dear dream e'en earth Ecelin Eglamor Einsiedeln England eyes face fancies fate fear feel Ferrara Fest Festus forever Ghibellin God's Goito gone Guelf hair Hampden hand hate hear heart heaven hope King Lady Car Lady CARLISLE laugh leave live Lombardy look Luigi Mantua Michal mind morning Naddo ne'er never night nought o'er once Otti Palma Paracelsus Parliament pass past PIPPA passes Polyxena praise Queen Salinguerra Sardinia Savile sing sleep smile song Sordello soul speak spirit stay Straf Strafford strange strength sure talk Taurello tell thee there's thing thou thought trust truth Turin turn Vane Verona Vicenza Victor voice wait Wentworth What's word Würzburg youth
Pasajes populares
Página 7 - But in that middle stage when they were full Yet ere I had disposed them to my will ; And then I shall show how these elements Produced my present state, and what it is. I am made up of an intensest life, Of a most clear idea of consciousness Of self...
Página 40 - 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 : hut 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 ! Mir/in/.
Página 229 - Because perceptions whole, like that he sought To clothe, reject so pure a work of thought As language : thought may take perception's place But hardly co-exist in any case, Being its mere presentment — of the whole By parts, the simultaneous and the sole By the successive and the many.
Página 43 - Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe : There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness ; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception — which is truth; A baffling and perverting carnal mesh...
Página 193 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Página 331 - All service ranks the same with God: If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no last nor first. Say not "a small event!" Why "small?" Costs it more pain than this, ye call A "great event" should come to pass, Than that?
Página 4 - Withered, though here to me most beautiful." And then I was a young witch whose blue eyes, As she stood naked by the river springs, Drew down a god ; I watched his radiant form Growing less radiant, and it gladdened me...
Página 195 - That autumn eve was stilled : A last remains of sunset dimly burned " O'er the far forests, like a torch-flame turned By the wind back upon its bearer's hand In one long flare of crimson ; as a brand, The woods beneath lay black.
Página 96 - check "The shout, restrain the eager eye!" But the heaving sea was black behind For many a night and many a day, And land, though but a rock, drew nigh ; So, we broke the cedar pales away...
Página 122 - 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 splendor, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom : I shall emerge one day.