Life of Robert BrowningW. Scott, 1890 - 219 páginas This book, published in 1890 and written by William Sharp, provides a biography and criticism of Robert Browning and his most famous works. |
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... close . Of his children's company he never tired , even when they were scarce out of babyhood . He was fond of taking the little Robert in his arms , and walking to and fro with him in the dusk in " the library , " soothing the child to ...
... close . Of his children's company he never tired , even when they were scarce out of babyhood . He was fond of taking the little Robert in his arms , and walking to and fro with him in the dusk in " the library , " soothing the child to ...
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... close , or was rudely interrupted , is not known . What is certain is that it made a deep impression on the poet's mind . It may be that it , of itself , or wrought to a higher emotion by his hunger after ideal beauty , was the source ...
... close , or was rudely interrupted , is not known . What is certain is that it made a deep impression on the poet's mind . It may be that it , of itself , or wrought to a higher emotion by his hunger after ideal beauty , was the source ...
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... close of any dramatic poem in our literature , the wretched Guido , at the point of death , cries out in the last extremity not upon God or the Virgin , but upon his innocent and murdered wife- " Abate , -Cardinal , -Christ , -Maria ...
... close of any dramatic poem in our literature , the wretched Guido , at the point of death , cries out in the last extremity not upon God or the Virgin , but upon his innocent and murdered wife- " Abate , -Cardinal , -Christ , -Maria ...
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... close of " Othello , " when the Moor cries in his bitterness of soul , " But being wrought , perplext in the extreme " : we can imagine this , and yet could not credit the suggestion that even the author of " The Ring and the Book ...
... close of " Othello , " when the Moor cries in his bitterness of soul , " But being wrought , perplext in the extreme " : we can imagine this , and yet could not credit the suggestion that even the author of " The Ring and the Book ...
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... Close following this is another memorable passage , that beginning " Night , and one single ridge of narrow path ; " which has a particular interest for two notes of a deeper and broader music to be evolved long afterwards . For , as it ...
... Close following this is another memorable passage , that beginning " Night , and one single ridge of narrow path ; " which has a particular interest for two notes of a deeper and broader music to be evolved long afterwards . For , as it ...
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Página 148 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints...
Página 158 - Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge- — That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Página 158 - The gray sea and the long black land ; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each!
Página 121 - 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 176 - ... taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Página 212 - 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.
Página 38 - The thing was my earliest attempt at 'poetry always dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine...
Página 29 - 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...
Página xxii - GHOSTS," "AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE," and "THE WILD DUCK." With an Introductory Note. VOL. III. "LADY INGER OF OSTRAT," "THE VIKINGS AT HELGELAND,