Elizabeth Barrett BrowningW. H. Allen & Company, 1888 - 194 Seiten |
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... caused quite a mythology to spring up around her name , and this fictitious lore the publications of those assuming to speak with authority has only increased . Miss Mitford , who saw Mrs. Browning frequently , knew her relatives ...
... caused quite a mythology to spring up around her name , and this fictitious lore the publications of those assuming to speak with authority has only increased . Miss Mitford , who saw Mrs. Browning frequently , knew her relatives ...
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... caused her to mingle frolic with her classical endowments . In the poem of " Hector in the Garden , " Elizabeth Barrett tells that a device for amusement she invented when she was only nine years old was to cut out with a spade a huge ...
... caused her to mingle frolic with her classical endowments . In the poem of " Hector in the Garden , " Elizabeth Barrett tells that a device for amusement she invented when she was only nine years old was to cut out with a spade a huge ...
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... cause of her delicacy what it may , confinement and ill - health only increased her passion for reading . About this epoch in her life came to pass an event that must be regarded as one that influenced Eliza- beth's future as largely as ...
... cause of her delicacy what it may , confinement and ill - health only increased her passion for reading . About this epoch in her life came to pass an event that must be regarded as one that influenced Eliza- beth's future as largely as ...
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... cause to believe in the advent of a great poetess , some of them , notably those beginning " Mine is a wayward lay , " were skilfully handled and were not barren of felicitous turns of thought . Reverting to the more personal history of ...
... cause to believe in the advent of a great poetess , some of them , notably those beginning " Mine is a wayward lay , " were skilfully handled and were not barren of felicitous turns of thought . Reverting to the more personal history of ...
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... caused her to feel occasionally that the human element should not be quite overshadowed by the psychological . Some- times when she turned her thoughts to incidents of her daily life , she wrote with a simplicity and pathetic tenderness ...
... caused her to feel occasionally that the human element should not be quite overshadowed by the psychological . Some- times when she turned her thoughts to incidents of her daily life , she wrote with a simplicity and pathetic tenderness ...
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Seite 58 - Turns the long light that drops adown the wall, Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, 'O ye wheels' (breaking out in a mad moaning) 'Stop!
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Seite 118 - So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair ; And a voice said in mastery while I strove, 'Guess now who holds thee ?' — 'Death !' I said. But there, The silver answer rang: 'Not Death, but Love.
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Seite 89 - And the steed shall be red-roan, And the lover shall be noble, With an eye that takes the breath: And the lute he plays upon Shall strike ladies into trouble, As his sword strikes men to death.
Seite 88 - Mid the beeches of a meadow, By a stream-side on the grass, And the trees are showering down Doubles of their leaves in shadow On her shining hair and face.
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Seite 87 - THERE is no God,' the foolish saith, — ' But none, ' There is no sorrow ; ' And nature oft, the cry of faith, In bitter need will borrow : Eyes, which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised ; And lips say, ' God be pitiful,' Who ne'er said,