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"Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Death in the Desert, l. 586-8, Dramatis Personae (1864). |
"Inscribe all human effort with one word,
Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 11, l. 1560 (1868-1869). |
"Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Death in the Desert, l. 59 (1864). |
"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 1, l. 1391-2 (1868-1869). |
"Let us try.
To-morrow, how you shall be glad for this!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto (l. 19-20). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). |
"Everyone soon or late comes round by Rome."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 5, l. 296 (1868-1869). |
"You called me, and I came home to your heart."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto (l. 171). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). |
"Faultless to a fault."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 9, l. 1177 (1868-1869). |
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto, l. 97-8, Men and Women, vol. 2 (1855). |
"There's a new tribunal now
Higher than God's—the educated man's!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 10, l. 1976-7 (1868-1869). |
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