Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning1892 - 24 страници |
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Страница 837 - Pomegranate,' which, if cut deep down the middle, Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
Страница 839 - Hark, now I push its wicket, the moss Hinders the hinges and makes them wince ! She must have reached this shrub ere she turned, As back with that murmur the wicket swung ; For she laid the poor snail my chance foot spurned, To feed and forget it the leaves among.
Страница 833 - ... the image of her peaceful home, of its fireside where the logs are burning, and the mistress established on her sofa, with her little boy curled up by her side, the door opening and shutting meanwhile to the quick step of the master of the house, and to the life of the world without, coming to find her in her quiet corner.
Страница 848 - Wordsworth : but should anybody have curiosity to inquire which " 15 or 20 " of his poems have most thoroughly impressed such an one as myself, all I can affirm is that I treasure as precious every poem written during about the first twenty years...
Страница 848 - I have myself attempted the business, and know something of the achievements in this kind of my betters. They furnish a list of the pieces which the selector has found most delight in. And I have found also, that others, playing the selector with apparently as good a right and reason, were dissatisfied with this unaccountable addition, and that as inexplicable omission ; in short, that the sole selector was not himself. The only case in which no such stumbling-block occurs being that obvious one...
Страница 840 - She is very small, she is brown, with dark eyes and dead brown hair ; she has white teeth, and a low, curious voice ; she has a manner full of charm and kindness ; she rarely laughs, but is always cheerful and smiling ; her eyes are very bright. Her husband is not unlike her. He is short ; he is dark, with a frank, open countenance ; long hair, streaked with grey ; he opens his mouth wide when he speaks ; he has white teeth.
Страница 845 - Mrs. Browning attempted nothing but what she was perfectly competent to perform, and therefore they were better poems than others which iuay contain a great deal more poetry. " Aurora Leigh" is the latest, and Mrs. Browning tells us, in the dedication, " the most mature" of her works ; the one into which her " highest convictions upon Life and Art have entered.
Страница 841 - ... especially our French friends, were full of bustle, full of noise at starting ; but so soon as we had cleared the little channel of Newhaven, and got into the sea or British Channel, all this abated, sank into the general sordid torpor of sea-sickness, with its miserable noises, " Hoahah — hohh ! " and hardly any other amid the rattling of the wind and sea.
Страница 844 - I have not left the house one evening since our return. I am writing, a first step towards popularity for me, lyrics with more music and painting than before, so as to get people to hear and see...
Страница 834 - and yet not for the whole world's beauty would I stand among the sunshine and shadow of them any more. It would be a mockery, like the taking back a broken flower to its stalk.