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"the whole seems to fall into a shape
As if I saw alike my work and self
And all that I was born to be and do,
A twilight-piece. Love, we are in God's hand."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto (l. 46-49). . .
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.). |
"Only I discern—
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Two in the Campagna (l. 58-60). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"I do what many dream of, all their lives,"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto (l. 69). . .
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.). |
"Silence and passion, joy and peace,
An everlasting wash of air—
Rome's ghost since her
decease."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Two in the Campagna (l. 23-25). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Well, less is more, Lucrezia."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto, l. 78, Men and Women, vol. 2 (1855).
"Less is more" is said to have been one of the favorite maxims of architect Mies Van der Rohe. |
"Let us be unashamed of soul,
As earth lies bare to heaven above!
How is it under our control
To love or not to love?"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Two in the Campagna (l. 32-35). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"less is more, Lucrezia:"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto (l. 78). . .
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.). |
"Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Up at a Villa—Down in the City (l. 65). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Asolando (l. 171). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press. |
"Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare,
The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square;
Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Up at a Villa—Down in the City (l. 1-3). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
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