Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 - Bookbinding |
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Page 70
... higher models , such as either play of Edipus or the Antigone , and that there is an essential difference between melodrama and tra- gedy , and that the latter is of a nobler class in art . In saying this , we use ' melodramatic ' for ...
... higher models , such as either play of Edipus or the Antigone , and that there is an essential difference between melodrama and tra- gedy , and that the latter is of a nobler class in art . In saying this , we use ' melodramatic ' for ...
Page 71
... higher . Perhaps the reverse is the case in the novel . The passions are not moved in the same way . The interests are not so simple , exclu- sive , and swiftly accumulated . They are spread out and varied ; the tragic element is ...
... higher . Perhaps the reverse is the case in the novel . The passions are not moved in the same way . The interests are not so simple , exclu- sive , and swiftly accumulated . They are spread out and varied ; the tragic element is ...
Page 91
... higher power . It leads her astray too sometimes . Real life is higher and more responsible than any art , and no gain of force in imagery can justify the least failing in religious reverence . But Mrs. Browning has accustomed herself ...
... higher power . It leads her astray too sometimes . Real life is higher and more responsible than any art , and no gain of force in imagery can justify the least failing in religious reverence . But Mrs. Browning has accustomed herself ...
Page 92
... and ease which she displays ; but there is a higher class of power , whose might is in the simplicity of its own strength ; which dares go unarmed , and un- sheathes its sword only when the occasion is absolute ; 92 MRS . BROWNING .
... and ease which she displays ; but there is a higher class of power , whose might is in the simplicity of its own strength ; which dares go unarmed , and un- sheathes its sword only when the occasion is absolute ; 92 MRS . BROWNING .
Page 98
... higher task of giving a shape of verse to the more complex phenomena of life and society . Her present flight is an ambitious one . If we rightly under- stand her , she tells us that Aurora Leigh is her attempt in a poem ...
... higher task of giving a shape of verse to the more complex phenomena of life and society . Her present flight is an ambitious one . If we rightly under- stand her , she tells us that Aurora Leigh is her attempt in a poem ...
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Page 7 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 459 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 7 - COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 372 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 7 - The dawn, the dawn,' and died away; And East and West, without a breath, Mixt their dim lights, like life and death, To broaden into boundless day.
Page 7 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words; Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee, O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro