Robert Browning: Poet and Philosopher, 1850-1889, Volume 2 |
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... present nothing but first- hand report of him during his lifetime ; to attempt to present the poet as no feather - bed philosopher , but one in whom genius dawned " with throes and stings , " was the aim of the author , however ...
... present nothing but first- hand report of him during his lifetime ; to attempt to present the poet as no feather - bed philosopher , but one in whom genius dawned " with throes and stings , " was the aim of the author , however ...
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... present general disposition to have faith in him , yet not shrinking from a candid statement of all ambiguous passages through a reasonable confidence - in the perfection of his character according to the poor limits of our humanity ...
... present general disposition to have faith in him , yet not shrinking from a candid statement of all ambiguous passages through a reasonable confidence - in the perfection of his character according to the poor limits of our humanity ...
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... present even unlovely truth in his characters and situations was the object of Browning's art : " When a soul has seen By the means of Evil that Good is best , And , through earth and its noise , what is heaven's serene , - When our ...
... present even unlovely truth in his characters and situations was the object of Browning's art : " When a soul has seen By the means of Evil that Good is best , And , through earth and its noise , what is heaven's serene , - When our ...
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... present tense , then the future tense of prophecy , and asked in his distress to remember- " That loving hand of His that leads you Yet locks you safe from end to end Of this dark world , unless He needs Just saves your light to spend ...
... present tense , then the future tense of prophecy , and asked in his distress to remember- " That loving hand of His that leads you Yet locks you safe from end to end Of this dark world , unless He needs Just saves your light to spend ...
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... presents a beautiful woman with simply her beauty to commend her - she has nothing under it . What then ? says the poet . Is it not just enough to be beautiful ? Why want more than refreshment from her charm 64 ROBERT BROWNING.
... presents a beautiful woman with simply her beauty to commend her - she has nothing under it . What then ? says the poet . Is it not just enough to be beautiful ? Why want more than refreshment from her charm 64 ROBERT BROWNING.
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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
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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!