The Poetry of Robert BrowningT. Y. Crowell, 1902 - 445 páginas |
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... strange child of genius , was born in 1840 , those who tried to read its first pages declared they were incomprehensible . It seems that critics in those days had either less intelligence than we have , or were more impatient and less ...
... strange child of genius , was born in 1840 , those who tried to read its first pages declared they were incomprehensible . It seems that critics in those days had either less intelligence than we have , or were more impatient and less ...
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... strange thing . Had he been one of the smaller men , a modern specialist like Arnold or Rossetti , we could better understand it . But Browning's work was not limited to any particular or temporary phase of human nature . He set himself ...
... strange thing . Had he been one of the smaller men , a modern specialist like Arnold or Rossetti , we could better understand it . But Browning's work was not limited to any particular or temporary phase of human nature . He set himself ...
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... Strange boats , filled with outlandish figures , who played on unknown instruments , and sang of deeds and passions remote from common life , sailed by on its stormy waters . Few were the concords , many the discords , and some of the ...
... Strange boats , filled with outlandish figures , who played on unknown instruments , and sang of deeds and passions remote from common life , sailed by on its stormy waters . Few were the concords , many the discords , and some of the ...
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... strange shows of Judaism to Browning's own conception of religion in the present day contrasted with those of the popular religion in Christmas - Day and Easter - Day . Never , in poetry , was the desire of the historical critic for ...
... strange shows of Judaism to Browning's own conception of religion in the present day contrasted with those of the popular religion in Christmas - Day and Easter - Day . Never , in poetry , was the desire of the historical critic for ...
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... strange problem how a man , who was in one part of his nature a great poet , could , under the sway of another , cease to be a poet . At this point his in- feriority to Tennyson as a poet is plain . Tennyson scarcely ever wrote a line ...
... strange problem how a man , who was in one part of his nature a great poet , could , under the sway of another , cease to be a poet . At this point his in- feriority to Tennyson as a poet is plain . Tennyson scarcely ever wrote a line ...
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Página 150 - All we have willed, or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Página 440 - AT the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, When you set your fancies free, Will they pass to where — by death, fools think, imprisoned — Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so, — Pity me ? Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!
Página 28 - OH, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now...
Página 310 - This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
Página 312 - Eh? the whole seems to fall into a shape As if I saw alike my work and self And all that I was born to be and do, A twilight-piece.
Página 306 - tis past midnight, and you go the rounds, And here you catch me at an alley's end Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar? The Carmine's my cloister: hunt it up, Do, — harry out, if you must show your zeal, Whatever rat, there, haps...
Página 300 - 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!
Página 29 - SEA. Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay ; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay ; In the dimmest North-East distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...
Página 403 - O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face...
Página 289 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.