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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... placed at my disposal ; but possibly I may have succeeded in educing from them some essential part of that light which they undoubtedly cast upon the personality and genius of the poet . LIFE OF BROWNING . CHAPTER I. T must , to 10 NOTE .
... placed at my disposal ; but possibly I may have succeeded in educing from them some essential part of that light which they undoubtedly cast upon the personality and genius of the poet . LIFE OF BROWNING . CHAPTER I. T must , to 10 NOTE .
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... twelvemonth , and Tennyson three years sooner , when also Elizabeth Barrett was born , and the foremost naturalist of modern times first saw the light . 1 It is a matter of significance that the great wave 12 LIFE OF.
... twelvemonth , and Tennyson three years sooner , when also Elizabeth Barrett was born , and the foremost naturalist of modern times first saw the light . 1 It is a matter of significance that the great wave 12 LIFE OF.
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... light on the vigour and variety of the poet's genius . Possibly the main current of his ancestry is as little strictly English as German . A friend sends me the following paragraph from a Scottish paper : - " What of the Scottish ...
... light on the vigour and variety of the poet's genius . Possibly the main current of his ancestry is as little strictly English as German . A friend sends me the following paragraph from a Scottish paper : - " What of the Scottish ...
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... light and ivory - toned as it was in later life , has been described as olive , and it is said that one of his nephews , who met him in Paris in his early manhood , took him for an Italian . It has been affirmed that it was the ...
... light and ivory - toned as it was in later life , has been described as olive , and it is said that one of his nephews , who met him in Paris in his early manhood , took him for an Italian . It has been affirmed that it was the ...
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... light emanating from the haze of mist shrouding the vast city , with the added transitory gleam of troubled waters , the drifting of fogs , at that distance seeming like gigantic veils constantly being moved forward and then slowly with ...
... light emanating from the haze of mist shrouding the vast city , with the added transitory gleam of troubled waters , the drifting of fogs , at that distance seeming like gigantic veils constantly being moved forward and then slowly with ...
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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,