...splendid passage in Browning's Pippa Passes, where two guilty lovers are conversing; and Ottima says : " Buried in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran...roof, here burnt and there, As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee...

...splendid passage in Browning's Pippa Passes, where two guilty lovers are conversing; and Ottima says: " Buried in woods we lay, you recollect ; Swift ran...roof, here burnt and there, As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee...

...each, And smother up all life except our life. So lay we till the storm came. Seb. How it came ! Otti. Buried in woods we lay, you recollect; Swift ran the...overhead; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burned thro' the pine-tree roof, here burned and there, As if God's messenger thro' the close wood...

...There was no similarity of circumstance, but she found herself repeating the guilty woman's words. " Swift ran the searching tempest overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro ' the pine-tree roof, here burnt and there, As if Gal's messenger thro' the close wood-screen...

...weigh down each to each, And smother up all life except our life So lay we till the storm came. Ottima. Buried in woods we lay, you recollect Swift ran the...; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree roof, — here burnt and there, As if God's messenger thro' the close wood screen...

...and once he led another friend, who suddenly found his own sky a stormy chaos, where, " Swift ran a searching tempest overhead. And ever and anon some...bright white shaft Burnt through the pine-tree roof, burnt here, burnt there, As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged...

...' Swift ran the searching tempest overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro' the pine-tree roof, here burnt and there, As if God's messenger thro' the close wood-screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee and me : then broke...

...fires," and if language would allow, we might translate "hewing with names of fire," and illustrate by " And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt through...roof, here burnt and there, As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee...

...fires," and if language would allow, we might translate "hewing with flames of fire," and illustrate by " harles John through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture. Feeling for guilty thee...

...emotional intensity the scene with the lovers. The culmination is reached in this magnificent passage : " Swift ran the searching tempest overhead, And ever and anon some bright, white shaft Burned thro' the pine tree roof, here burned and there, As if God's messenger, thro' close wood screen....