Elizabeth Barrett BrowningW. H. Allen & Company, 1888 - 194 Seiten |
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... father's favourite child , and he , who was proud of her intelligence , spared no pains to cultivate it . Although one of a large family , and presumably the sharer in the sports of her brothers and sisters , she appears to have been ...
... father's favourite child , and he , who was proud of her intelligence , spared no pains to cultivate it . Although one of a large family , and presumably the sharer in the sports of her brothers and sisters , she appears to have been ...
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... father , " who was an austere Englishman who taught his little daughter Latin and Greek him- self , is intended for Mr. Barrett , is more than doubtful . Indulgent as her father was in some things , he was sternly despotic in others ...
... father , " who was an austere Englishman who taught his little daughter Latin and Greek him- self , is intended for Mr. Barrett , is more than doubtful . Indulgent as her father was in some things , he was sternly despotic in others ...
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... , and Mr. Barrett was SO proud of the production that he had fifty copies of it printed and distributed . The little booklet , con- sisting of seventy - two pages , was dedicated to her father , from " Hope End , 1819. " The HOPE END . Gr ...
... , and Mr. Barrett was SO proud of the production that he had fifty copies of it printed and distributed . The little booklet , con- sisting of seventy - two pages , was dedicated to her father , from " Hope End , 1819. " The HOPE END . Gr ...
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... Father ! rose my early lays ! And when the lyre was scarce awake , I lov'd its strings for thy lov'd sake ; Woo'd the kind Muses - but the while Thought only how to win thy smile- My proudest fame - my dearest pride- More dear than all ...
... Father ! rose my early lays ! And when the lyre was scarce awake , I lov'd its strings for thy lov'd sake ; Woo'd the kind Muses - but the while Thought only how to win thy smile- My proudest fame - my dearest pride- More dear than all ...
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... father's praise that sounded sweet to the little author's ears ; in after life , when too late , a lost mother's love were more often the first thought of her verse . The principal sharer of Elizabeth's childish amuse- ments was her ...
... father's praise that sounded sweet to the little author's ears ; in after life , when too late , a lost mother's love were more often the first thought of her verse . The principal sharer of Elizabeth's childish amuse- ments was her ...
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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,