The Browning Cyclopædia: A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning. With Copious Explanatory Notes and References on All Difficult PassagesS. Sonnenschein & Company, 1892 - 572 Seiten |
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Seite 166 - You, sir, I entertain you for one of my Hundred ; only, I do not like the fashion of your garments: you will say, they are Persian ; but let them be changed."—King Lear, Act III, sc. vi. The work embraces the following collection of
Seite 186 - have passed them over unnoticed a hundred times before— " And so they are better, painted—better to us. Art was given for that." " The world is no blot for us, nor blank ; it means intensely, and means good." "Ah, but,
Seite 94 - attachment to Prospero. Mr. Browning's Caliban has become a metaphysician ; he talks Browningese, and reasons high " Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute." He has studied Calvin's Institutes of Theology, and knows enough
Seite 8 - of the King Lord Tennyson says— "The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built for ever." Cardinal Newman, too, as the writer in the Spectator points out, expresses the same thought in his Oxford sermon, " The Theory of Development in Christian Doctrine." The preacher said : " Take another example of an outward and earthly form
Seite 104 - Tom's a-cold.—O do de, do de, do, de. Bless thee from whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes." At the end of the scene Edgar sings:— " Childe Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still,—Fie, foh, and
Seite 234 - Face, my hands fashioned, see it in myself! Thou hast no power nor may'st conceive of mine. But love I gave thee, with myself to love, And thou must love me who have died for thee!' The madman saith He said so: it is strange.
Seite 401 - Hophni and the ark": "And the ark of God was taken ; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain" (i Sam. iv., II etc.). " Correggio and Lcdas " : Correggio's picture of " Leda and the Swan,
Seite 290 - that is to be changed. But this is not at all to the poet's mind. He thinks he has learned his lesson here. He has seen " By the means of evil that good is best," and considers that the uses of labour may consequently be garnered. He hopes there is rest; he has had troubles enough.
Seite 560 - Woman, and A Forgiveness. Works of Robert Browning. The new and uniform edition of the works of Robert Browning is published in sixteen volumes, small crown 8vo. This edition contains three portraits of Mr. Browning, at different periods of life, and a few illustrations. Contents of the volumes :— Vol.
Seite 547 - day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! " NOTES.—Stanza ii., " By Bacchus " : Per Bacco—Italians still swear by the wine-god. Stanza ix., "with a pink gauze gown all spangles, and seven swords stuck in her heart!