Life of Robert BrowningW. Scott, 1890 - 219 páginas |
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... mind , though they must be valorous and potent as of yore , can enter upon no heritance save that which naturally awaits them , and has been made theirs by long and intricate processes . The lustrum which saw the birth of Robert ...
... mind , though they must be valorous and potent as of yore , can enter upon no heritance save that which naturally awaits them , and has been made theirs by long and intricate processes . The lustrum which saw the birth of Robert ...
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... mind , and with an artistic bias having its readiest fulfilment in music , and , to some extent , in poetry . In the latter she inclined to the Romanticists : her husband always maintained the supremacy of Pope . He looked with much ...
... mind , and with an artistic bias having its readiest fulfilment in music , and , to some extent , in poetry . In the latter she inclined to the Romanticists : her husband always maintained the supremacy of Pope . He looked with much ...
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... Mrs. Corson . The poet's father was never in India . He was quite a youth when he went to his mother's sugar - plantation at St. Kitts , in the West Indies . profound grief . This must be borne in mind by BROWNING . 23.
... Mrs. Corson . The poet's father was never in India . He was quite a youth when he went to his mother's sugar - plantation at St. Kitts , in the West Indies . profound grief . This must be borne in mind by BROWNING . 23.
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William Sharp. profound grief . This must be borne in mind by those who would estimate aright the genius of Robert Browning . It would be affectation or folly to deny that his splendid physique - a paternal inheritance , for his father ...
William Sharp. profound grief . This must be borne in mind by those who would estimate aright the genius of Robert Browning . It would be affectation or folly to deny that his splendid physique - a paternal inheritance , for his father ...
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... mind was expanding towards compulsive expression . " So as I grew , I rudely shaped my life To my immediate wants , yet strong beneath Was a vague sense of powers folded up- A sense that though those shadowy times were past , Their ...
... mind was expanding towards compulsive expression . " So as I grew , I rudely shaped my life To my immediate wants , yet strong beneath Was a vague sense of powers folded up- A sense that though those shadowy times were past , Their ...
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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,