The Art of Optimism as Taught by Robert BrowningT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1900 - 35 páginas |
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active voice antelope art of optimism art of pessimism boat all hole boundless deep Turns breast Browning Browning's Epilogue conquering power dark grave death divine dowry draught of dew dreamed drunk my last earth fact faith fell one day fight finite folded hands forevermore friends give happy hate human experi husband indicative mood jackals last dew last sweet draught live lovers material of pessimism mill-stream it fell miserable never once OPTIMISM AS TAUGHT optimist passive voice peasant-poet pessimism and optimism pessimist place and perform poem Pompilia ready-made roar ROBERT BROWNING robust optimism rules for pessimism satisfied serene shroud side soldier asked soldier spake soul soul's strength sound spindle of hazelwood spring sure take its place TAUGHT BY ROBERT Tennyson three parts pain tion triumph truth Turns again home unfitness victorious optimism wait water has brought whole words worst wrong Yesterday's flowers
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Página 11 - The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 15 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 5 - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Página 30 - 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 confirms the conception of an hour.
Página 12 - Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Página 22 - For the loving worm within its clod, Were diviner than a loveless god Amid his worlds, I will dare to say.
Página 28 - My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Página 12 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; 11.
Página 15 - 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 35 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.