The Browning Cyclopædia: A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning. With Copious Explanatory Notes and References on All Difficult PassagesS. Sonnenschein & Company, 1892 - 572 pages |
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Page 301 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 425 - So, let him wait God's instant men call years ; Meantime hold hard by truth and his great soul, Do out the duty ! Through such souls alone God stooping shows sufficient of His light For us i
Page 309 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 124 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and, behold, this also is vanity.
Page 519 - If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will!
Page 92 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 234 - The very God ! think, Abib ; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, 'O heart I made, a heart beats here ! Face, my hands fashioned, see it in myself. Thou hast no power nor may'st conceive of mine, But love I gave thee, with Myself to love, 310 And thou must love me who have died for thee !' The madman saith He said so : it is strange.
Page 234 - O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee : a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever ! a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Page 345 - And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side ? who ? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down.
Page 473 - For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. For it is written ; Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.