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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... critic , student ; Mr. Browning's opinion of his son's writings ; the home in Camberwell ; Robert Browning's childhood ; concerning his optimism ; his fondness for Carravaggio's " Andromeda and Perseus " ; his poetic precocity ; origin ...
... critic , student ; Mr. Browning's opinion of his son's writings ; the home in Camberwell ; Robert Browning's childhood ; concerning his optimism ; his fondness for Carravaggio's " Andromeda and Perseus " ; his poetic precocity ; origin ...
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... critic , Milsand . CHAPTER VI . PAGE . 93 Browning's three great dramatic poems ; " The Ring and the Book " his finest work ; its uniqueness ; Carlyle's criticism of it ; Poetry versus Tour - de - Force ; " The Ring and the Book " begun ...
... critic , Milsand . CHAPTER VI . PAGE . 93 Browning's three great dramatic poems ; " The Ring and the Book " his finest work ; its uniqueness ; Carlyle's criticism of it ; Poetry versus Tour - de - Force ; " The Ring and the Book " begun ...
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... critic of the century was running about the sands of Boulogne , or perhaps wandering often along the ramparts of the old town , introspective even then , with something of that rare and insatiable curiosity which we all now recognise as ...
... critic of the century was running about the sands of Boulogne , or perhaps wandering often along the ramparts of the old town , introspective even then , with something of that rare and insatiable curiosity which we all now recognise as ...
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... critic . His extreme modesty is deducible from this naïve remark . He was an amateur 1 The three brothers were men of liberal education and literary tastes . Mr. W. S. Browning , who died in 1874 , was an author of some repute . His ...
... critic . His extreme modesty is deducible from this naïve remark . He was an amateur 1 The three brothers were men of liberal education and literary tastes . Mr. W. S. Browning , who died in 1874 , was an author of some repute . His ...
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William Sharp. artist , moreover , as well as poet , critic , and student . I have seen several of his drawings which are praise- worthy his studies in portraiture , particularly , are ably touched : and , as is well known , he had an ...
William Sharp. artist , moreover , as well as poet , critic , and student . I have seen several of his drawings which are praise- worthy his studies in portraiture , particularly , are ably touched : and , as is well known , he had an ...
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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,