The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, Količina 16Smith, Elder, & Company, 1889 |
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Admetus APOLLO Art's ATROPOS Avison beauty Behold beneath BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE blackcap boast brain CHARLES AVISON CHRISTOPHER SMART CLOTHO colour crave Crown 8vo dare death Dervish descry didst dost Dryope duke earth Edition evil eyes fact fancy FATES fear Ferishtah FERISHTAH'S FANCIES fire flesh fool forsooth FRANK BUCKLAND Furini FUST gain GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON GEORGE DU MAURIER Gerard de Lairesse gift God's hand haply head heart heaven ignorance knowledge LACHESIS Lairesse leave less life's lips live look love and praise Man's marvel mind needs never Nishapur nowise o'er once pain plain prove Quoth sage SECOND FRIEND sense SEVENTH FRIEND Shah SIXTH FRIEND smile somehow soul soul's stand Sun's sure thanks thee There's thine things thou thyself true truth turn VOLUME whence Wherefore word wrong
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Stran 91 - How of the field's fortune? That concerned our Leader! Led, we struck our stroke nor cared for doings left and right: Each as on his sole head, failer or succeeder, Lay the blame or lit the praise: no care for cowards: fight!
Stran 150 - Never to whom knelt votarist in shrine By Nature's bounty helped, by Art's divine More varied — beauty with magnificence — Than this : from floor to roof one evidence Of how far earth may rival heaven.
Stran 62 - all I seem to know Is — I know nothing save that love I can Boundlessly, endlessly. My curls were crowned In youth with knowledge, — off, alas, crown slipped Next moment, pushed by better knowledge still Which nowise proved more constant : gain, to-day, Was toppling loss to-morrow, lay at last — Knowledge, the golden ? — lacquered ignorance ! As gain — mistrust it ! Not as means to gain : Lacquer we learn by : cast in fining-pot, AVe learn, when what seemed ore assayed proves dross, —...
Stran 51 - Once I saw a chemist take a pinch of powder — Simple dust it seemed — and half-unstop a phial : — Out dropped harmless dew. " Mixed nothings make " (quoth he) "Something ! " So they did : a thunderclap, but louder — Lightning-flash, but fiercer — put spectators' nerves to trial : Sure enough, we learned what was, imagined what might be.
Stran 77 - All the same, Of absolute and irretrievable And all-subduing black, — black's soul of black Beyond white's power to disintensify, — Of that I saw no sample...
Stran 64 - Its how and why, i' the future and elsewhere) Except to — yet once more, and ever again, Confirm thee in thy utter ignorance : Assured that, whatsoe'er the quality Of love's cause, save that love was caused thereby, This — nigh upon revealment as it seemed A minute since — defies thy longing looks, Withdrawn into the unknowable once more. Wholly distrust thy knowledge, then, and trust As wholly love allied to ignorance ! There lies thy truth and safety.
Stran 93 - 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.
Stran 67 - Consider well ! Were knowledge all thy faculty, then God Must be ignored : love gains him by first leap. Frankly accept the creatureship : ask good To love for : press bold to the tether's end Allotted to this life's intelligence !
Stran 220 - Dance, yellows and whites and reds,— Lead your gay orgy, leaves, stalks, heads Astir with the wind in the tulip-beds ! There's sunshine ; scarcely a wind at all Disturbs starved grass and daisies small On a certain mound by a churchyard wall. Daisies and grass be my heart's bedfellows On the mound wind spares and sunshine mellows : Dance you, reds and whites and yellows ! VII WITH CHARLES AVISON WITH CHARLES AVISON.
Stran 189 - Things are, — yet cloud breaks and lets blink the sky Just overhead, not elsewhere ! What assures His optics that the very blue which lures Comes not of black outside it, doubly dense ? Ignorance overwraps his moral sense, Winds him about, relaxing, as it wraps, So much and no more than lets through perhaps The murmured knowledge —