The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert BrowningHoughton, Mifflin, 1887 |
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Admetus AGAMEMNON APOLLO Arthur Chappell ATROPOS aught Barnabite beauty Behold beneath Bernard de Mandeville blackcap boast brain breast CHOROS CHRISTOPHER SMART CLOTHO curse dare dead death deed duke earth evil eyes fact fancy fast fate fear Ferishtah fire flesh fool Furini FUST gain George Bubb Dodington Gerard de Lairesse gift glory God's grace hand haply hast head hear heart heaven hope ignorance KASSANDRA KLUTAIMNESTRA knowledge LACHESIS laugh leave life's live look Man's Master mind needs never night nowise o'er once pain Pheidippides plain play poet praise prize prove Quoth round sage sapience SECOND FRIEND sense SEVENTH FRIEND smile soul soul's stand sure tell thanks thee There's thine things thou tongue touch Troia true truth turn twixt Voltaire whence Wherefore word Zeus
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Página 235 - NEVER the time and the place And the loved one all together I This path — how soft to pace ! This May — what magic weather ! Where is the loved one's face? In a dream that loved one's face meets mine, But the house is narrow, the place...
Página 387 - WHY?" Because all I haply can and do, All that I am now, all I hope to be — Whence comes it save from fortune setting free Body and soul the purpose to pursue, God traced for both ? If fetters, not a few, Of prejudice, convention, fall from me, These shall I bid men — each in his degree Also God-guided — bear, and gaily too ? But little do or can the best of us : That little is achieved through Liberty.
Página 142 - John, go and catch — or, if needs be, Purchase — that animal for me ! By vivisection, at expense Of half-an-hour and eighteenpence, How brain secretes dog's soul, we '11 see ! '
Página 357 - Will not again take wing and fly away (Since fatal Wagner fixed it fast for us) In some unmodulated minor? Nay, Even by Handel's help! VI I state it thus: There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music.
Página 1 - ... are all the more appropriate to archaic workmanship, is no violence : but I would be tolerant for once, — in the case of so immensely famous an original,— of even a clumsy attempt to furnish me with the very turn of each phrase in as Greek a fashion as English will bear...
Página 387 - Yet, unlike hers, was bless'd by every glance. The Tower of Hate is outworn, far and strange ; A transitory shame of long ago ; It dies into the sand from which it sprang ; But thine, Love's rock-built Tower, shall fear no change. God's self laid stable earth's foundations so, When all the morning-stars together sang.
Página 2 - Not that they failed in expression, or were inattentive to it; on the contrary, they are the highest models of expression, the unapproached masters of the grand style. But their expression is so excellent because it is so admirably kept in its right degree of prominence; because it is so simple and so well subordinated; because it draws its force directly from the pregnancy of the matter which it conveys.
Página 207 - cried each — " if I tell the truth Of a passage in my youth ! " Said This : " Do you mind the morning I met your love with scorning ? As the worst of the venom left my lips, I thought, ' If, despite this lie, he strips The mask from my soul with a kiss — I crawl His slave, — soul, body, and all ! ' " Said That : " We stood to be married ; The priest, or someone, tarried ; ' If Paradise-door prove locked ?
Página 348 - That all these thunders rent earth, ruined air To reach thee, pay thy patronage of men? He thundered, — to withdraw, as beast to lair, Before the triumph on thy pallid brow. Gather the night again about thee now, Hate on, love ever ! Morn is breaking there — The granite ridge pricks through the mist, turns gold As wrong turns right.
Página 111 - But truth, truth, that's the gold ! and all the good I find in fancy is, it serves to set Gold's inmost glint free, gold which comes up rude And rayless from the mine. All fume and fret Of artistry beyond this point pursued Brings out another sort of burnish : yet Always the ingot has its very own Value, a sparkle struck from truth alone.