Robert Browning: Poet and Philosopher, 1850-1889D. Appleton, 1924 - 251 páginas |
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Abt Vogler Admetus Alcestis Aristophanes asks Asolo Balaustion beauty believe better Book brain Browning's Caliban called 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 Mesmerism 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 Shakespeare Shelley Sonnet Sordello soul soul's spirit story Sutherland Orr thee thing thou thought tion truth turn uttered wife woman women wonder words writes written wrote young
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Página 125 - 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...
Página 127 - 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.
Página 72 - 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!
Página 54 - 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.
Página 80 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for ! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead! I seek and I find it.
Página 53 - 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...
Página 94 - 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.
Página 51 - 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!
Página 90 - 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!
Página 69 - And says there's news to-day — the king Was shot at, touched in the liver-wing, Goes with his Bourbon arm in a sling : — She hopes they have not caught the felons. Italy, my Italy ! Queen Mary's saying serves for me — (When fortune's malice Lost her — Calais) — Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it,