The Seen & Unseen in BrowningAppleton, 1924 - 191 pages |
Common terms and phrases
Abt Vogler Angel Arthur Symons attain awakening Azrael beauty become body breath Browning's called cell character creature dark Dean Inge death deep desire Divine doubt dream ears earth earthly Elvire enclitic eternal evil eyes faith Festus Fifine flesh genius give God's Grammarian heart Heaven Heavenly hidden higher hope human idea ideal imagination ineffable intellect Ixion Jacob Boehme knew knowledge life's light living look love's man's Max Müller means mental mind monologue mysterious mystical nature never nought once pain Palace Palace of Music Paracelsus pass passion perfect poem poet poet's Pornic praise rapture rise Robert Browning says seems Setebos sight Sir Henry Jones sleep sorrow soul soul's spirit story strength strives suffering sure tells thee Theocrite Thessaly things thou thought true truth vision voice weakness wheel whisper wonderful words writes Zeus
Popular passages
Page 91 - And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 22 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 25 - Never to be again! But many more of the kind, As good, nay, better perchance; is this your comfort to me ? To me, who must be saved because I cling with my mind To the same, same self, same love, same God: ay, what was, shall be.
Page 131 - Do I find love so full in my nature, God's ultimate gift, That I doubt His own love can compete with it ? Here the parts shift ? Here, the creature surpass the creator — the end, what began ? Would I fain in my impotent yearning do all for this man, And dare doubt he alone shall not help him, who yet alone can...
Page 21 - Nay more ; for there wanted not who walked in the glare and glow, Presences plain in the place ; or, fresh from the Protoplast, Furnished for ages to come, when a kindlier wind should blow, Lured now to begin and live...
Page 94 - No, indeed! for God above Is great to grant, as mighty to make, And creates the love to reward the love: I claim you still, for my own love's sake! Delayed it may be for more lives yet, Through worlds I shall traverse, not a few: Much is to learn, much to forget Ere the time be come for taking you.
Page 131 - My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Page 83 - If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time ; I press God's lamp Close to my breast — its splendour, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom : I shall emerge one day ! You understand me ? I have said enough ? Fest.
Page 17 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 7 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.