Robert Browning: Poet and Philosopher, 1850-1889, Volume 2 |
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... plays ? ' I was just then collaborating with Sims on a melodrama for the Adelphi , and the question was construed by those who heard it as an expression of ironical contempt . " Browning's remark was spitefully resented and com- mented ...
... plays ? ' I was just then collaborating with Sims on a melodrama for the Adelphi , and the question was construed by those who heard it as an expression of ironical contempt . " Browning's remark was spitefully resented and com- mented ...
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... plays but losing them by spendthrift ways . He was embittered against Browning by this reported remark of Browning's , which he took as a slight upon his claim to be called a poet . He was angry at what he thought Browning's defection ...
... plays but losing them by spendthrift ways . He was embittered against Browning by this reported remark of Browning's , which he took as a slight upon his claim to be called a poet . He was angry at what he thought Browning's defection ...
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... play ! Let the visible go to the dogs - what matters ? " Old Pictures in Florence . " A Toccata of Galuppi's " is a present - day soliloquy on an old Italian , Baldasare Galuppi , of date 1706-1785 . He was a composer of fame and most ...
... play ! Let the visible go to the dogs - what matters ? " Old Pictures in Florence . " A Toccata of Galuppi's " is a present - day soliloquy on an old Italian , Baldasare Galuppi , of date 1706-1785 . He was a composer of fame and most ...
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... played the congregation out of a church , and the old dead composer . The organist calls upon Master Hugues to tell him what he means by certain movements in his com- positions ... play something better - his full organ 44 ROBERT BROWNING.
... played the congregation out of a church , and the old dead composer . The organist calls upon Master Hugues to tell him what he means by certain movements in his com- positions ... play something better - his full organ 44 ROBERT BROWNING.
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Poet and Philosopher, 1850-1889 Frances Mary Sim. the fugue and play something better - his full organ blare of pure truthful music of the Church . He will turn on the mode Palestrina : as the mystic Pascal was better than the casuist ...
Poet and Philosopher, 1850-1889 Frances Mary Sim. the fugue and play something better - his full organ blare of pure truthful music of the Church . He will turn on the mode Palestrina : as the mystic Pascal was better than the casuist ...
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1817 LIBRARIES Abt Vogler Admetus Alcestis Aristophanes asks Asolo Balaustion beauty believe better Book brain Browning's Caliban called CHIGAN Christ Christian Cleon conception confessed Dark Tower David death Divine dream earth emotion Epilogue Euripides faith fancy Ferishtah Ferishtah's Fancies Fifine Fifine-at-the-Fair Fitzgerald Florence genius Gérard de Lairesse Gigadibs give God's Greek hand heart heaven hope human ideal imagination intellectual Italy Ixion lady legend light lives Lord Lord Leighton lover man's master memory Mesmer MICHIGAN Milsand mind Miss Barrett mystery mystic nature never pain Paracelsus passion perfection Pheidippides picture Pippa Passes poet poet's poetry Pope present question Rabbi Ben Ezra relates Robert Browning Saisiaz Saul says Browning says the poem Setebos Shelley Sonnet Sordello soul soul's spirit story Sutherland Orr thee thing thou thought tion truth turn UNIV wife woman women wonder words writes wrote
Popular passages
Page 123 - 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. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Page 78 - 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!
Page 125 - 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.
Page 70 - I shall never, in the years remaining, Paint you pictures, no, nor carve you statues, Make you music that should all-express me; So it seems: I stand on my attainment. This of verse alone, one life allows me; Verse and nothing else have I to give you Other heights in other lives, God willing: All the gifts from all the heights, your own, love!
Page 52 - MY STAR. ALL that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now a dart of red, Now a dart of blue; Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue! Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled: They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it. What matter to me if their star is a world? Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.
Page 51 - Sayeth that such an one was born and lived, Taught, healed the sick, broke bread at his own house, Then died, with Lazarus by, for aught I know, And yet was . . . what I said nor choose repeat...
Page 92 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit.
Page 49 - 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. Thou hast no power nor may'st conceive of mine, But love I gave thee, with Myself to love, And thou must love me who have died for thee ! " The madman saith He said so: it is strange.
Page 74 - Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
Page 88 - The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing!