Browning's Parleyings: The Autobiography of a Mind

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Yale University Press, 1927 - 306 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 266 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
الصفحة 35 - No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. God stoops o'er his head, Satan looks up between his feet — both tug — He's left, himself, i' the middle: the soul wakes And grows.
الصفحة 112 - For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
الصفحة 193 - Thus he dwells in all, From life's minute beginnings, up at last To man — the consummation of this scheme Of being, the completion of this sphere Of life: whose attributes had here and there Been scattered o'er the visible world before, Asking to be combined — dim fragments meant To be united in some wondrous whole — Imperfect qualities throughout creation, Suggesting some one creature yet to make — Some point where all those scattered rays should meet Convergent in the faculties of man.
الصفحة 87 - There, in turn I stand with them and praise you, Out of my own self, I dare to phrase it. But the best is when I glide from out them, Cross a step or two of dubious twilight, Come out on the other...
الصفحة 87 - 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...
الصفحة 96 - Glorious th' assembled fires appear; Glorious the comet's train: Glorious the trumpet and alarm; Glorious th' almighty stretch'd-out arm: Glorious th' enraptur'd main: Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore: Glorious— more glorious is the crown...
الصفحة 266 - All through my keys that gave their sounds to a wish of my soul, All through my soul that praised as its wish flowed visibly forth, All through music and me ! For think, had I painted the whole, Why, there it had stood, to see, nor the process so wonder-worth : Had I written the same, made verse — still, effect proceeds from cause, Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told; It is all triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws.
الصفحة 284 - MY Father was a scholar and knew Greek. When I was five years old, I asked him once " What do you read about ? " " The siege of Troy." " What is a siege, and what is Troy ? " Whereat He piled up chairs and tables for a town, Set me a-top for Priam, called our cat — Helen, enticed away from home (he said) By wicked Paris, who couched somewhere close Under the footstool, being cowardly, But whom — since she was worth the pains, poor puss...
الصفحة xix - PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY: TO WIT : BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE, DANIEL BARTOLI, CHRISTOPHER SMART, GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON. FRANCIS FURINI, GERARD DE LAIRESSE, AND CHARLES AVISON. INTRODUCED BY A DIALOGUE BETWEEN APOLLO AND THE FATES; CONCLUDED BY ANOTHER BETWEEN JOHN FUST AND HIS FRIENDS.

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