| 单词 | Robert Browning |
| 例句 | The poems we read in class were her expressions of love to Robert Browning, her husband. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Preceding the concert, at 7 p.m., will be a talk about women and Indian music with Akeel Bilgrami, a scholar, and Robert Browning, a presenter of world music. Spare Times Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Illustration: Corbis This week's choice is an intriguing diptych by Robert Browning. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z The painting, which takes its name from a Robert Browning poem, "was enormously popular and highly regarded at the time", said Drummond. Edward Burne-Jones's Love among the Ruins up for auction 2013-04-03T15:13:56Z O’Farrell was sitting in her car, writing in her diary about Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues. Maggie O’Farrell Looks for Stories Hiding in Plain Sight 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z If Villon is the prime example of the poet as criminal, then Robert Browning must be the model poet as crime writer. Poster poems: Crime 2013-01-18T09:00:04Z This unflattering portrait has survived to this day, not least thanks to a poem by Robert Browning, who depicts the henpecked artist sadly diminished by a faithless wife. Free hand 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It was the final concert for the season of the World Music Institute, and the last one before the retirement of its founder, Robert Browning. Music Review: Roaring Back With Rumba and Religion 2011-05-08T22:25:58Z The definitive poem in English on the subject of cultural nostalgia may be a short verse by Robert Browning called “Memorabilia.” | 'Midnight in Paris': Kicking the Old Ennui With the Lost Generation 2011-05-19T14:22:17Z Reddick illustrated more than 50 books in total including a 1969 volume of Robert Browning's poems in the Limited Editions Club of New York series. Peter Reddick obituary 2010-11-24T19:16:00Z It was published in Britain as “My Last Duchess,” since it makes abundant reference to the chilling Robert Browning poem of that name. Books of The Times: Money May Not Buy You Love, but It Might Help You Land a Spouse 2011-06-26T21:00:06Z She writes letters that go mostly unanswered; she signs up for dancing lessons and puts together a study group on Robert Browning. The Little Syria of Deep Valley 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Her teenage diaries offer glimpses of her precocious talent: She enters poetry contests as E. Vincent Millay and buys a collection of Robert Browning poems with her prize money. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Because the college was already known for its Browning room and collection, Robert Browning donated Elizabeth's handwritten poem, "Little Mattie" to the college in 1882. Browning, Barrett letters: Devotion goes digital 2012-02-14T14:22:31Z Before you text “I luv u” to your partner on this Valentine’s Day, you might want to visit the newly digitized collection of correspondence between the Victorian poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett for inspiration. ArtsBeat: Love Letters Digitized: The 'Triumphant Happiness' of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning 2012-02-14T19:54:08Z They’re descended from such sturdy exemplars of dramatic irony as Robert Browning’s narrative poems and Ring Lardner’s first-person short stories, in which incriminating confessions seem to emerge by accident. It Takes One: How the Monologue Speaks Loudest in Lockdown 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Robert Browning is in his late 50s and still mourns his beloved wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Review | If poets could solve a crime . . . 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The relationship lasted several years and ended in a hysterical scene outside Robert Browning's house. The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy - review 2011-08-25T09:00:01Z Ai’s poems, which have been widely anthologized, are nearly always dramatic monologues, a form closely associated with the 19th-century English poet Robert Browning. Ai, an Unflinching Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 2010-03-28T02:20:00Z He was, after all, the mayor who liked to quote the poet Robert Browning, urging that “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp.” Eric Garcetti led L.A. during profoundly turbulent times. How will history judge him? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z But she survives — “looking as if she were alive” — in Robert Browning’s grimly ironic poem, “My Last Duchess.” Review | In Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘The Marriage Portrait,’ matrimony leads to death 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In “The Marriage Portrait,” Maggie O’Farrell imagines the girl who may have inspired “My Last Duchess,” a poem by Robert Browning. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z There is ambition to the chef’s cooking, the kind of fearless ambition that the poet Robert Browning once advocated, in which your reach always remains tantalizingly beyond your grasp. Review | At Balangay, a chef crafts ambitious Philippine food in a pop-up 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z The two women participated in the local women’s club and Robert Browning Society — dedicated to the study and appreciation of the work of Browning and his poet wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Artist Ella Shepard Bush helped shape the cultural life of Seattle, but not much is known about her life — or the whereabouts of many of her paintings 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The headstone placed at Shackleton’s grave site bears a quotation it attributes to Robert Browning: “I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life’s set prize.” The Discovery of Shackleton’s Wreck Is as Disquieting as It Is Amazing 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z In this community of about 650, named for a poem by Robert Browning, state police investigators spent several months examining Mr. Jacobs’s death. Where Police Killings Often Meet With Silence: Rural America 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Victorian poet Robert Browning courts invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett despite her stern father. Movies on TV this week: Feb. 23 — 29: 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Using pencil instead of a pen and writing in a poem by Robert Browning does not offset the damage you did. Rant and Rave: Reader not happy with marks in library book 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z “I think man’s reach should exceed his grasp,” he says, paraphrasing Robert Browning. Interstellar Probe, a mission concept for NASA, aims to travel 93 billion miles past the sun 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z The poet Robert Browning once exposed the mid-19th century Scottish psychic, Daniel Home, who claimed to conjure the spirit of Browning’s infant son, who died young. Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z It teaches us, to paraphrase Robert Browning, that an athlete’s reach should exceed their grasp. Why Ninja Warrior is the sport America needs | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Barrett is trying to get a breath of fresh air in Wimpole Street while her secret paramour Robert Browning slogs across the city to his home in New Cross. The 10 best non-fiction books about London 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z To paraphrase the poet Robert Browning, humanity's reach must exceed its grasp, or what are the heavens for? Astrobiology: Hunting aliens : Nature : Nature Research 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Some view the podcast and its name as a “black mark” on the community, said barber Robert Browning. Is it really ‘S-Town’? Hit podcast sparks an identity crisis 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Hazzard was seated close enough to overhear Greene reciting The Lost Mistress by Robert Browning to a friend. Shirley Hazzard, internationally acclaimed Australian author, dies at 85 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z As far as my own case goes, “duchess” is a dangerous trigger word, causing me to launch into Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess with full, hammy Larry Olivier-style hissing and simmering and Oscar-winning declaiming. Harry Potter play exposes the social apartheid in our theatre | Peter Bradshaw 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Robert Browning didn’t kill Porphyria in “Porphyria’s Lover.” Fredrick Seidel’s Ballsy Blasphemy 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z His predecessor Karen Sander, who left last fall, replaced the institute’s founder and longtime director, Robert Browning, in 2011. World Music Institute, a Tour for the Ears and Hips 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z And he ended with a literary flourish - quoting lines from Robert Browning's poem, The Lost Leader. A classic Westminster scandal 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z His prosecutorial misconduct was exposed by a pretentious writing style, particularly his fondness for obscure words found usually only on SAT exams or in the work of Victorian poet Robert Browning. His own words help bring down New Orleans prosecutor 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z What really distinguishes them is that their reach always exceeded their grasp, as Robert Browning so aptly put it. What Distinguishes Successful People? Less Than You Think 2013-06-10T17:00:34Z No matter how patriotic the newspaper, Robert Browning is not the moving spirit of these pages. Is spending your last years in the sun avoiding British taxation really worth it? 2013-03-22T17:42:14Z Well, as Robert Browning wrote in The Lost Leader, for Osborne it is likely to be a case of "never glad confident morning again". If only George Osborne would take his eye off Balls 2012-07-14T23:06:01Z That disconcerting sneer of Edward FitzGerald's, which so enraged Robert Browning, would never have occurred to him, I think, in the case of Miss Rossetti. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Look at the two pedantic, pompous, dull advocates in the later part of Robert Browning's "The Ring and the Book." Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z My own judgment assigns him the next place to Robert Browning. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Carlyle, Ruskin, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold complete a representative list of educators of popular taste during our age. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The year of this great change in England’s policy was the year of Robert Browning’s marriage and his departure for Italy, where he lived for fifteen years. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z It is little we can do, but you are no doubt acquainted with the poetry of Robert Browning: 'The little more, and how much it is'? The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z At Benzon's I met Robert Browning, a dear and sacred personage, dear for his own and his wife's sake. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z An English literature major at Brown University in Rhode Island, Paterno was a voracious reader whose favorite sayings included Robert Browning's "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" Paterno dies at 85; transformed Penn State into a football power 2012-01-23T00:03:00Z The late Robert Browning was another litterateur who wrote in commendation of the book, as did Mrs. Gladstone, Henry James, Mr. Russell Lowell, Miss Sewell, Mr. Phelps, and many others. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z I have tried to give a few suggestions in regard to what Robert Browning actually was in relation to his time. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z We knew Robert Browning pretty well, and I recollect one interesting conversation which I had with him on death and immortality. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z The story is the subject of a poem by Robert Browning, and also of one by Julius Wolff. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Robert Browning writes with generous enthusiasm of “Queen Mary.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Robert Browning established himself and his carpet-bag in comfortable lodgings on the Acropolis—which he spells with a K to show his intimate acquaintance with recent research. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Hitherto the work has been practically inaccessible to British readers, and in its new dress it is hoped it will be found invaluable in interpreting the greatest work of Robert Browning. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z Wiseman, until Mr. Wilfrid Ward published his excellent biography, was chiefly known to English Protestants as the instrument of papal aggression, and the subject of Robert Browning's satirical poem, "Bishop Blougram's Apology." Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z On May 7, 1912, the Academic Committee of the Royal Society of Literature celebrated the centenary of the birth of Robert Browning. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp,” the poet Robert Browning wrote. Shortcuts: Self-Improvement, at the Risk of Self-Acceptance 2011-11-05T02:02:12Z It must be confessed that Robert Browning's view of Greece never pleased, even in England. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Among them are to be noticed Charles Reade's novels and the poems of Robert Browning. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z List of Some of the Periodicals in which Notices of Robert Browning have appeared since his Death. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Are the phrasing and thought really his, or Robert Browning’s? Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Just three years before the beginning of the period Alfred Tennyson began to write, and just three years after it Robert Browning published his first poem. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Three years after this poem was written Elizabeth Barrett married Robert Browning, the poet, and together they went off to Italy, where the softer air and mild climate brought back her health for a time. Great Englishwomen An Historical Reading Book for Schools 2011-05-23T02:00:09.167Z I don't think, however, you can make me more than I am now—Yours gratefully and lovingly, Robert Browning. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Mr. Robert Browning has given us an over-faithful version from his matchless hand,—matchless, I conceive, in conveying the deeper spirit of the Greek poets. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z This great friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris brought with it many others, notably those of Robert Browning and of Mr. Henry Greville. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z Money never tempted Robert Browning to contribute to the magazines. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z A Blot in the ’Scutcheon, and other Poetic Dramas, by Robert Browning. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Why were the poems of Robert Browning so long unread? Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z We have no hesitation in strongly recommending this little volume to any who desire to understand the moral and mental attitude of Robert Browning.... The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Robert Browning, perhaps, of contemporary poets, presents the most acute contrast to Mr. Gosse. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Amongst these were Robert Browning and his wife, the vivacious and prying Mrs Trollope, and the once famous scientist, Mrs Somerville. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Robert Browning, though an optimist, and too polite a man to oppose George Eliot publicly, was impatient of her oracular manner. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Robert Browning, in his poem "How they brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent," refers to the bells of Malines Cathedral in the following line:— "And from Mecheln church steeple we heard the half-chime." The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z “And Robert Browning, you writer of plays, Here’s a subject made to your hand.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z And if we feel this strongly, we shall regard Robert Browning as the typical poet of the Victorian era. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It was after reading this paper that Robert Browning, then the president of the New Shakspere Society, wrote his final judgment on the play which was published in the Society’s “Transactions.” Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z It was the home of my delightful friend, Felix Moscheles, and there you could find Robert Browning almost any Sunday afternoon when he was in London. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z The voice of Robert Browning is stored for coming generations; the people A.D. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Reciprocate this blessing with yours affectionately, Robert Browning.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Mention may be made in passing, however, of Robert Browning, whose cordial detestation of Bohemianism is so well known. The Vagabond in Literature It was that best and kindest of men, Robert Browning, who had given it me, and to this day, when I read it, it seems more like music than like epistolary prose to me. Fragments of an Autobiography He was delighted with my statement that one of Gray's wild ideas was to rush over to Florence and 'throw himself on the sympathy of Robert Browning.' My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. She put "Diana" back on the shelf and held up the poems of Robert Browning. Ewing\\'s Lady On my telling Prof. Gardiner of this, I found that he knew it; and had been long convinced that the conception of Strafford in this Lardner Life was not John Forster’s, but was Robert Browning’s. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z For ten years he lived a life of ease in London, where he became the intimate friend of Robert Browning, of whose poem “Waring” he was the subject. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" You may laugh if you like, but I have the best of it; it isn't everybody who can boast of having written five lines of poetry together with Robert Browning. Fragments of an Autobiography When you go to Mrs. Loring's, will you ask W. Story if he has any of Robert Browning's poems to lend me for a short time? Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) Robert Browning has described in his Christmas Eve a certain German professor lecturing upon the myth of Christ and the sources whence it is derivable. Modern Substitutes for Christianity The new and uniform edition of the works of Robert Browning is published in sixteen volumes, small crown 8vo. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Mr. Gilbert Chesterton tells us that the real Robert Browning of literary history arrived with the Dramatic Lyrics. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation Meanwhile and ever, my dear Moscheles, believe me, gratefully and affectionately yours, "Robert Browning." Fragments of an Autobiography She is glad to introduce Robert Browning as the author of "Bells and Pomegranates" to the American public. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) But it may be suspected by observers that when Robert Browning came into fashion Henry Taylor went out. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) In the recently published Life and Letters of Robert Browning, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, there are many interesting incidents connected with the great poet’s love for animals, which characterised him from infancy till death. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Thomas Carlyle and Robert Browning used to be taken as two instances representing opposite extremes. Studies in Contemporary Biography It is hard for us at this date to realize the condition of England when that horrible Sirocco, as Robert Browning called it, the tax on corn, was blighting the land. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 In this he was a marked contrast to Ruskin, Robert Browning, and certain others—especially to "Owen Meredith"—men between whom and myself there was at once some half-conscious bond. Memoirs of Life and Literature Meanwhile she had met Robert Browning, and had married him, rather against the wish of her family, in 1846. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) In a singularly industrious and exhaustive manner he has set himself to make clear the obscure and to accentuate the beautiful in Robert Browning’s poem ... must have involved infinite labour and research. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It was in this year of 1841 that there penetrated into her atmosphere and consciousness the first intimation of Robert Browning. The Brownings Their Life and Art Again we turn to Robert Browning, most human of poets and most kindly of philosophers, to find adequate expression for the thoughts we dare not, cannot utter. The Naples Riviera Students of Robert Browning may recollect a short poem of his which begins with the following lines: And did you once see Shelley plain? Memoirs of Life and Literature Robert Browning was at that time a young man of thirty, and most of the poems which afterwards made him famous were still unwritten. Eighth Reader Turning from the painters to the poets, it was at Rome that Robert Browning, who was at this time writing his "Men and Women," formed close acquaintance with the young artist. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work It is easy to realize how such a problem would appeal to Robert Browning. The Brownings Their Life and Art How truly marvellous is the description of these wind-swept, weed-grown solitudes that Robert Browning presents to us in what is perhaps the most truly Italian in feeling of all his poems, “The Englishman in Italy!” The Naples Riviera But a sincere Christian, like Robert Browning, is nevertheless ready to honor Marlowe's genius; quite as ready, in fact, as Algernon Swinburne, whose impiety is no less "confirmed and daring" than Marlowe's own. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) It was at this time that the incident described so touchingly in the following poem by Robert Browning is supposed to have taken place. Eighth Reader The Orpheus and Eurydice showed that the old friendship, formed originally in Rome, between the painter and Robert Browning, was maintained. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work “The world of books is still the world,” wrote Mrs. Browning in “Aurora Leigh,” and this was the world of Robert Browning’s early life. The Brownings Their Life and Art Charles Darwin's body is buried there—the great Agnostic, who repudiated Christianity; Robert Browning's too—the poet who said "I am no Christian" to Robert Buchanan. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) This idea has been caught by Robert Browning in his marvellous Caliban upon Setebos, a poem developed out of a casual germ in Shakespeare's Tempest. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Here she lived her happy life as the wife of Robert Browning and mother of her boy. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Dr. Furnivall first called attention to this, and later the life of Strafford was reprinted as "Robert Browning's Prose Life of Strafford." Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning No creator of prose romance could invent more curious coincidences than those of the similar trend of fancy that is seen between the childhood of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. The Brownings Their Life and Art Another form would be: Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Request the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. Brown's Company at dinner, To meet Robert Browning, Thursday, October 8th at seven o'clock. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society The training which Robert Browning received was more individual, and his reading was wider and less accurate, than would have been the case had he gone to Eton or Winchester. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History I went with her to one of Mrs. Orr's receptions, where we met Robert Browning, a fine looking gentleman of seventy years, with white hair and mustache. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III An excellent example of a short story well told is “An Incident of the French Camp,” by Robert Browning. English: Composition and Literature Dating back to 1608, it was left for Robert Browning to invest it with immortality. The Brownings Their Life and Art Robert Browning's childhood was passed in an unusually serene and happy home. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Thus Plato is always asking, like Robert Browning in 'Rabbi Ben Ezra',— Now, who shall arbitrate? Progress and History To slightly paraphrase Robert Browning: "Others may reason and welcome, But seeing the dance, we know." The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession This volume affords aid and guidance to the study of Robert Browning's poetry, which, being the most complexly subjective of all English poetry, is, for that reason alone, the most difficult. The Writing of the Short Story Of “The Ring and the Book” Dr. Hodell says: “In the wide range of the work of Robert Browning no single poem can rival ‘The Ring and the Book,’ in scope and manifold power. The Brownings Their Life and Art This book consists of a reprint of two articles, one from The Century Magazine on "The Early Career of Robert Browning," and one from The New Review entitled "Personal Impressions." Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning The t's are crossed and the i's are dotted, so to speak, more carefully in Robert Browning than in works less fastidiously edited, but that is all. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study The great news of the season is the marriage of my beloved friend Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning. Stories of Authors, British and American Browning Enlightened Englishmen were further stirred at this time by the publication of Robert Browning's "Pauline," a narrative in unusually virile verse, and by Edmund Keane's original creation of the character of "Othello." A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Many readers and lovers of Robert Browning’s poem “La Saisiaz” little dream of the singular story connected with it. The Brownings Their Life and Art Robert Browning, the poet, was the third of that name. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning As a poet heart- and fancy-free—whole, I listened at the Carlyles' keyhole; And I saw, I, Robert Browning, saw, Tom hurl a teacup at Jane's jaw. Something Else Again The marriage of Robert Browning to Miss Barrett is the one dramatic event in his quiet life. Stories of Authors, British and American Arnold has sent me a copy of Robert Browning’s ‘Belaustion,’ in order to make me like classics, and give up science. The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. Dearest friend, my sister writes, all love to Edith, all love to you, from your ever affectionate Robert Browning. The Brownings Their Life and Art The first Robert Browning, a man of energy and ability, held an important post in the Bank of England. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Oscar Wilde would have liked this excuse for a poem ... even Robert Browning, who would have woven many moral strophes from this text.... The Merry-Go-Round He said Robert Browning had a powerful intellect, and among the men engaged in literature in England just now was one of the few from whom it was possible to expect something. Stories of Authors, British and American Robert Browning, in one of his poems, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," has powerfully described an incursion of rats. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. To Robert Browning on his seventieth birthday, May 7th, 1882, from some members of the Browning Societies. The Brownings Their Life and Art For criticism see, as books varying widely in point of view and scope, but each of distinct interest: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning For plain men and women, the key to the problem may lie in the question put by Robert Browning into the mouth of Innocent XII.:— The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Robert Browning gave the subject much thought and responded at length: Who will may hear the poet's story told. The Re-echo Club By Robert Browning Note.—This poem of Browning’s furnishes its own historical setting; it gives date and places and names. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 In all the lovely chronicles of literature and life there is no more beautiful instance of an almost lifelong friendship than that between Robert Browning and William Wetmore Story. The Brownings Their Life and Art Not Meredith nor Robert Browning at their most complex have been more baffling. Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 The two great poets were Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning. Poems: New and Old It was just after the appearance of my story of David Gray in the Cornhill that I first met, at the Priory, North Bank, with Robert Browning. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The person on intimate terms with another world seldom knows much about this, and when Robert Browning tells of Sludge, the Medium, he symbols his opinion of all mediums. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 While the cause of Italian liberty had the entire sympathy of Robert Browning, he was yet little moved to use it as a poetic motive. The Brownings Their Life and Art Robert Browning says that they were rounded up all right, but when it came to saying the Creed they twiddled their thumbs and said Ben Ezra's Prayer. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Robert Browning was a poet of strange inequality and of extraordinary and fantastic methods in his composition. Poems: New and Old He was delighted with my statement that one of Gray’s wild ideas was to rush over to Florence and “throw himself on the sympathy of Robert Browning.” The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Robert Browning had felt and expressed great admiration for Miss Barrett’s poems and an allusion to himself in her Lady Geraldine’s Courtship gave him an excuse for addressing her. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Landor had then written to Southey: “God grant that Robert Browning live to be much greater, high as he now stands among most of the living.” The Brownings Their Life and Art The quotation "chip at crusts like Hindus" is from Robert Browning's poem "Youth and Art." Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day This quality, found largely in the school of Robert Browning, is one to be guarded against. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I have never seen anything of its kind so chivalric as the deference paid by Robert Browning to Walter Savage Landor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 What Robert Browning wanted so much, it was a foregone conclusion that he would have; and Miss Barrett was at last brought to consent to an engagement. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 I know better than any in the world, indeed, what Mr. Kenyon once unconsciously said before me, that ‘Robert Browning is great in every thing.’ The Brownings Their Life and Art Just as man was potential in the primordial slime, so was the marriage of Robert Browning a possibility in the earliest union of scarce-emancipated man and woman. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles It seems to me to attack the central difficulty in understanding and reading Robert Browning's poetry.... How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions The following volumes are issued:— Robert Browning, by Arthur Waugh. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." And thus he justified Robert Browning and many another singer. Immortal Memories Curiously, all the biographers of Robert Browning have recorded that it was during this sojourn in Pisa that the “Sonnets from the Portuguese” were first made known to him. The Brownings Their Life and Art Of all Forster's friends at this time, of course, after Dickens, and he had innumerable ones, his fastest seemed Robert Browning. John Forster "This line—'There may be Heaven, there must be Hell'—that's Robert Browning all right; but the next quotation is from the Sonnets to the Portuguese." The Making of a Soul To reach his beautiful bust, a copy by Scheemakers of an earlier one, we must pass over the gravestones of two well-known modern poets, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Westminster Abbey Her year of birth was universally given as 1809 until some time after Robert Browning’s death. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 How all that infinite greatness of spirit and almost divine breadth of comprehension that characterize Robert Browning reveal themselves in this estimate of Shelley. The Brownings Their Life and Art Should be delighted, my dear friend, to go to you, but it is an immemorial custom that every Sunday Robert Browning dines with me. John Forster Before this monument are the graves of the two most famous poets of our generation, the Laureate Tennyson and Robert Browning, side by side. Westminster The Fascination of London Yet another personage of intellectual fame who was to be met in Society was Robert Browning, the least poetical-looking of poets. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography List of criticisms of Browning’s works, selected from Dr. Furnivall’s “Bibliography of Robert Browning” contained in the Browning Society’s Papers. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Nothing less than this would satisfy Robert Browning. The Brownings Their Life and Art As it was, two of the lectures were reprinted in The Welcome Guest, "a magazine of recreative reading for all," with Robert Browning, Charles Kingsley and Monckton Milnes among its contributors. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert In No. 19, Warwick Crescent, Robert Browning lived for five-and-twenty years, a fact recorded by a tablet of the Society of Arts. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London Of Robert Browning, as he appeared in society, I have already spoken; but here let me add an instance which well illustrates his tact and readiness. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography From beginning to end, it is pervaded with a fervid feeling that not to know Robert Browning is to lose something. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 With this last year of Robert Browning’s life, this unseen leading is especially obvious. The Brownings Their Life and Art The first of these has a unity, and a definiteness of contour unusual with Shelley, and is, with the exception of some of Robert Browning's, the best English tragedy since Otway. Brief History of English and American Literature But it is of sufficient dramatic interest to cause Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Robert Browning each to use it also as the subject for a poem. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year I believe that Robert Browning is the only eminent Englishman that never visited the town. Highways and Byways in Sussex Poets and Prose-Writers.—The six greatest poets of the latter half of this century are Longfellow, a distinguished American poet, Tennyson, Mrs Browning, Robert Browning, 354 William Morris, and Matthew Arnold. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Robert Browning, the grandfather of the poet, was a clerk in the Bank of England, a position he obtained through the influence of the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Brownings Their Life and Art Let us take for a moment one of the great interpreters of life, Robert Browning, who was so intensely interested above all things in personality. Joyous Gard It had to be admitted that Robert Browning could make men who had never looked at their brothers’ faces dwell for days in their souls, but he was not a poet. The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century But Robert Schumann, like Robert Browning, was too big a man to be jealous of his wife. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Rev. Joseph Cook, Boston: Professor Corson’s Introduction to Robert Browning’s Poetry appears to me to be admirably adapted to its purposes. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 It is a curious coincidence that this love of the Greeks, as to history, literature, and mythology, characterized the earliest childhood of both Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. The Brownings Their Life and Art Robert Browning's addresses were, therefore, kept secret, for fear of scenes of anger which the most fragile of the three could not face. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Not a man of our century would have cherished such a conception but Robert Browning. A Hero and Some Other Folks Milnes, Monckton, and Robert Browning, v, 55; Alfred Tennyson and, v, 76. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Education, Boston: Any effort to aid and guide the young in the study of Robert Browning’s poetry is to be commended. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Present or absent, you will remember me always, I trust, as Yours most affectionately Robert Browning. The Brownings Their Life and Art It was at Pisa that Robert Browning first saw the Sonnets from the Portuguese, poems which his wife had written in secret and had no thought of publishing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" This we must say: Despite the genial leniency of Robert Browning's criticism of the dramatic success of "Harold," and "Becket," and "The Cup," we may safely refuse concurrence in judgment. A Hero and Some Other Folks You can not separate them, any more than you can separate the great Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Robert Browning, the most daring and original poet of the century, was born in Camberwell, a southern suburb of London, in the year 1812. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 And remember me as ever most affectionately yours, Robert Browning. The Brownings Their Life and Art In 1866 Robert Browning published a volume of selections from his wife's works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The grave lay next to Robert Browning's, hard by the monument to Chaucer. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The greatest of English poets since Shakespeare, is the title given to Robert Browning by many admirers of recognized ability as critics. Modern English Books of Power Robert Browning sang this sturdily through a long generation riding down its difficulties by the sheer force of an unconquerable optimism and subduing argument to lyric passion. Modern Religious Cults and Movements I had a letter from America to-day, from somebody who, hearing I was in ill health, desired to inform me that he wouldn’t weep for me, were it not for Robert Browning and Penini! The Brownings Their Life and Art The poetry I regard least is such stuff as that of Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold, which argues and illuminates. Damn! A Book of Calumny What could the critic do with Robert Browning when he appeared? Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O My suggestion to one who would learn to love Browning is to get a little book, Lyrical Poems of Robert Browning, by Dr. A.J. Modern English Books of Power Robert Browning The reviews of Browning's poems are singularly uninteresting from a historical standpoint. Early Reviews of English Poets I know I am ever yours and your own Edith’s affectionately, Robert Browning. The Brownings Their Life and Art Unquestionably he does occasionally, like Robert Browning, err in the direction of cacophony. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Robert Browning, the poet, speaks again and again of the noble uses of failure. A Girl's Student Days and After Good short sketches and estimates are Chesterton's Browning in the English Men of Letters series and Waugh's Robert Browning. Modern English Books of Power But such striving is, as Robert Browning tells us in Rabbi ben Ezra and The Statue and the Bust, the critical and all-important point in human character and destiny. Among Famous Books Come, bringing news of Edith, and the doings in the house, and above all of your own health and spirits and so rejoice Ever your affectionate Robert Browning. The Brownings Their Life and Art Then she added, with a shake of her head and a gleam of malicious truth in her blue eyes: “That is not the whole of it; Robert Browning was the means of bringing it about.” The Jamesons We have been desirous to explain and justify the state of feeling in which we enter on the consideration of a new poem by Robert Browning. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art The drapery, however, is perfectly transparent, and one may read "Robert Browning" for "Dervish Ferishtah" passim. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Readers of Robert Browning's poems, House and Shop, will remember the scorn which that poet pours upon any one who unlocks his heart to the general public. Among Famous Books Among these was one from Miss Elizabeth Barrett, soon to become the wife of Mr. Robert Browning. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe She recommended selections from Robert Browning to be read at our meetings, and she sent us some copies of explanatory and critical essays to be used in connection with them. The Jamesons Of all poets, there is none more than Robert Browning, in approaching whom diffidence is necessary. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art "The poetry of Robert Browning," says Pater, "is pre-eminently the poetry of situations." An Introduction to the Study of Browning It is the same process which, just about this time, Robert Browning was describing in Paracelsus and Sordello. Among Famous Books Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1809-1861, was born in London, married the poet Robert Browning in 1846, and afterwards resided in Italy most of the time till her death, which occurred at Florence. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Mrs. Jameson read selections from Robert Browning until six o'clock, and by that time Mrs. White had attained to the calmness of despair. The Jamesons Among the Colleoni statue's great admirers was Robert Browning, who never tired of telling the story of the hero to those unacquainted with it. A Wanderer in Venice A large proportion of it is critical rather than creative, a criticism of critics; perhaps it would be at once more correct and concise to call it "Robert Browning's Apology." An Introduction to the Study of Browning Indeed for the moment the difference was practically annulled, since Robert Browning believed, what was very probably the case, that the Emperor's friendship for Italy was genuine, so far as it went. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II One wonders if this treatment still prevails in the Hameln of Robert Browning's ballad. Elizabeth Fry Mrs. Jameson said Robert Browning with such an impressive and triumphantly introductory air that it was almost impossible for a minute not to feel that Browning was actually there in our sewing circle. The Jamesons This for long was the home of Robert Browning, and here, as a tablet on the side wall states, he died. A Wanderer in Venice Told as it is, it becomes in part a dramatic monologue of which the dramatis persona is Robert Browning. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Why, there is not so poor a village in the United States where they would not tell you that Robert Browning was an Englishman, and that they were very sorry he was not an American.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II There are few poems which have interested children more than Robert Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin." Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People My daughter has got the same trait, but it works the contrary way: when she once gets her mind set against anybody, that's the end of it unless Robert Browning steps in to turn her.” The Jamesons Robert Browning tried to buy this palace for his son. A Wanderer in Venice I wish to acknowledge my obligation to Mrs. Orr's Handbook to Robert Browning's Works, and to some of the Browning Society's papers, for helpful information and welcome light. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Robert Browning is unerring in every sentence he writes of the Middle Ages.... Browning's Shorter Poems My dear Mr Robert Browning, I little thought, when I suggested to the artist your poem of the piper, that I should ever retail the story in Rommany to a tinker. The English Gipsies and Their Language She mentioned in this connection Robert Browning, the benefit of whose teaching was denied our ancestors of a hundred years ago. The Jamesons The "In Memoriam" of Tennyson, the "De Profundis" of Mrs. Browning, and the rich and glorious music of Robert Browning could have come only from souls which had been profoundly moved by grief and pain. The Ascent of the Soul The first and perhaps the final impression we receive from the work of Robert Browning is that of a great nature, an immense personality. An Introduction to the Study of Browning These selections from the poetry of Robert Browning have been made with especial reference to the tastes and capacities of readers of the high-school age. Browning's Shorter Poems I found that the family could read and write—the daughter received and read a note, and one of the sons knew who and what Mr Robert Browning was. The English Gipsies and Their Language I will now read to you a selection from Robert Browning.” The Jamesons Well, these Poems were to be, and this true thankful joy and pride with which I feel myself, Yours ever faithfully, Robert Browning. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Such, so far as I can realise my conception of him, is Robert Browning; and such the tenour of his work as a whole. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Do you remember what Robert Browning says: "What o' the way to the end?—The end crowns all." Uncle Max Mrs. Jocelyn bought some presents," explained Polly, "for me to give to my friends, a I chose Robert Browning's 'Poems' for you. Polly of the Hospital Staff Robert Browning was not romantic in Scott's way, nor in Tennyson's. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century We venture to say that the whole of Shakspeare's thought is inwardly tasted by as many people as enjoy the subtilty of Robert Browning. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 We don't know who it was who wrote the income-tax blank, but we are certain that he stole his style either from Robert Browning or Henry James. More Toasts We do not know whether Robert Browning's expectation of 'other tasks in other lives, God willing,' will be fulfilled. Outspoken Essays Robert Browning.—As a poet of decided individuality, which has gained for him many admirers, Browning claims particular mention. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Yet Ruskin said: "Robert Browning is unerring in every sentence he writes of the Middle Ages." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century One which seemed specially characteristic of Robert Browning was written on the thinnest of paper in the finest hand, difficult to decipher. Memories and Anecdotes A few days later he was buried in Westminster Abbey, by the side of Robert Browning, his friend and contemporary, who had preceded him by only a few years. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson Robert Browning also, especially in his later years, uses anti-intellectualist language equally uncompromising. Outspoken Essays Among these was Lady Geraldine's Courtship: an exquisite story, the perusal of which is said to have induced Robert Browning to seek her acquaintance. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The English reader is frequently reminded by Hugo's verses of the queer, abrupt, and outré measures, and fantastic rimes of Robert Browning. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century I clapped my hands wildly at sight of it, in the English fashion, and was intensely relieved when the yet more resonant applause of Robert Browning followed mine. A Christmas Garland As is your sort of mind So is your sort of search; you'll find What you desire, and that's to be A Christian, said Robert Browning in Christmas Eve and Easter Day. Tragic Sense Of Life Most of its French readers doubtless heard of Herv� Riel, as well as of Robert Browning, for the first time. Robert Browning "What's the matter with you, Rae?" she quizzed sharply, and then turning round quite casually to her book-case began to draw from the shelves one by one her beloved Marcus Aurelius, Wordsworth, Robert Browning. The White Linen Nurse With Dedication to Alfred Tennyson; and a photographic portrait of Robert Browning. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Many years after, when articles upon Robert Browning were as numerous as they once had been scarce, never a word betrayed that their authors knew of the existence of "Pauline." Life of Robert Browning And we may say with Robert Browning, All we have gained, then, by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith For one of faith diversified by doubt. Tragic Sense Of Life In this second Robert Browning, indeed, the somewhat brutal and grasping egotism of the father gave place to a cultured humanity of almost feminine tenderness and charm. Robert Browning The second of the three promised quotations shall be from Robert Browning. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Not included in any collection of Robert Browning's Poems. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) It must suffice, here, that Miss Barrett was born on the 4th of March 1809, and so was the senior, by three years, of Robert Browning. Life of Robert Browning In the National Portrait Gallery there are two paintings of the poet Robert Browning, one by Rudolph Lehmann and one by Watts. The Practice and Science of Drawing If you were shown this line and asked what poet had written it, I think you would be inclined to say, Robert Browning. The Magician No mission, no frustration could touch with hysteria the humanity of Robert Browning. Varied Types The poem by Robert Browning here is "The Twins," and is dated "Rome, March 30th, 1854." A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) They did not return direct to Italy after all, but wintered in Paris with Robert Browning the elder, who had retired to a small house in a street leading off the Champs Élysées. Life of Robert Browning But the artistic value of Strqfford or In a Balcony was settled when Robert Browning wrote their last lines. Miscellanies He had been greatly influenced by Swinburne and Robert Browning. The Magician If Mrs, Aitken's poems suggest Mrs. Browning's, these Cartoons of Mrs. Preston's have a slight flavor of Robert Browning's Men and Women in their subjects and in their mode of thought. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Yet even Robert Browning was affected by the popular outcry. Great Britain and the American Civil War It is not my intention--it would, obviously, be a futile one, if entertained--to attempt an analysis or elaborate criticism of the many poems, long and short, produced by Robert Browning. Life of Robert Browning When the news came to him that Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett were gone, it is said that he sobbed like a youth to whom has come a great, strange sorrow. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Why did his mind tend towards Robert Browning, and away from George Eliot? Cobwebs of Thought There have been few great writers who have been so incapable of revision as Robert Browning, but Browning with all his genius is not a great stylist to be named with Shakespeare. The Art of Letters But literary England in general, was slow to express itself with conviction, though Robert Browning, by April, 1861, was firmly determined in his pro-Northern sentiment. Great Britain and the American Civil War Indeed, her resuscitation after meeting Robert Browning would mount into a miracle, unless it were realized that nothing in her former life had been quite as woful as it seemed. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 It was so with Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning—they had merely existed before; now, they began to live. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women A word about Lizzie Flower: She was nine years older than Robert Browning; and she had a mind that was gracious and full of high aspiration. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors In attempting, therefore, to discover Robert Browning's philosophy of life, I do not pretend that my treatment of him is adequate. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher "What would you advise about Pen's studies?" said Robert Browning one afternoon as we sat in my little studio, talking about his son's talents and prospects. In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences There in 1888 his son, recently married, had made his home; and there on the 12th of December, 1889, Robert Browning died. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Now Robert Browning was not at all of the typical poet type. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Robert Browning awoke one morning with a start—it was the morning of his thirtieth birthday. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Now, this view was given to Robert Browning, and he broke out into a song of victory, whose strains will give strength and comfort to many in the coming time. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Robert Browning was unquestionably a thoroughly conventional man. Robert Browning The world was never a vale of tears to Robert Browning, man or poet; but a world of men and women, with plenty of red corpuscles in their blood. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Yet if there ever was a man who did not wear his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at, it was Robert Browning. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women The father of Robert Browning had done everything a father could. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Truly a moving picture, by a painter who owes much of his fame to Robert Browning. Promenades of an Impressionist Gradually, however, the talking became more infrequent, the cheerfulness passed into a kind of placidity; and without any particular crisis or sign of the end, Robert Browning died on December 12, 1889. Robert Browning It is plain truth to say that no other English poet, living or dead, Shakespeare excepted, has so heaped up human interest for his readers as has Robert Browning.... Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Then here's a book with Miss Martineau's name, and another from Robert Browning—do you know who he was? Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women The love of Robert Browning for Elizabeth Barrett was a revival and a renewal, in many ways, of the condition of tenderness and sympathy that existed between Browning and his mother. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors He would not be Robert Browning without them. Emerson and Other Essays When that poem was written, two people knew what it meant—God and Robert Browning. Robert Browning Of Robert Browning, his neighbour and seven-years-older contemporary, the same tale is told. The Life of John Ruskin But the love of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett is an instance of the Divine Passion. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Buyers would not buy—no one seemed to want the wares of Robert Browning. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Robert Browning was a strong, glowing, whole-souled human being, who enjoyed life more intensely than any Englishman since Walter Scott. Emerson and Other Essays She went to Paris, and had not been there many days, when she received a formal call from Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who had been married for some days. Robert Browning The same is true in both respects of Robert Browning. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) But the name of Elizabeth Barrett, if not yet that of Robert Browning, was a sufficient introduction to cultivated Englishmen and Americans who had made Florence their home. Robert Browning They did not stay long, but when they went away Robert Browning trod on air. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Indeed, only great poets are known so intimately as we know Robert Browning. Emerson and Other Essays Robert Browning had his faults, and the general direction of those faults has been previously suggested. Robert Browning Another contribution from her consisted of the suggestion of mottoes appropriate to each writer noticed at length; and in this work she had an unknown collaborator in the person of Robert Browning. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Before her marriage she became a member of the Independent congregation, meeting for worship at York Street, Lock's Fields, Walworth, where now stands the Robert Browning Hall. Robert Browning Robert Browning tramped the streets forgetful of meat, drink or rest. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors In the world of Robert Browning everything was right. Emerson and Other Essays But she must have known very little of Robert Browning if she imagined he would be contented with this airy and bloodless tie. Robert Browning Well, then, I am getting deeper and deeper into correspondence with Robert Browning, poet and mystic, and we are growing to be the truest of friends. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) A time came when Robert Browning must make choice of a future career. Robert Browning When Robert Browning died, in Eighteen Hundred Eighty-nine, the world of literature and art uncovered in token of honor to one who had lived long and well and had done a deathless work. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors To men suffering from an age of devotion to humanity came Robert Browning as a liberator. Emerson and Other Essays The whole of the boyhood and youth of Robert Browning has as much the quality of pure poetry as the boyhood and youth of Shelley. Robert Browning Robert Browning is meditating a new poem, and an excursion on the Continent. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Robert Browning held strong opinions on the duty of resisting evil, and if evil assume the guise of parental authority it is none the less—he believed—to be resisted. Robert Browning And so Robert Browning told her all this shortly after, but before he told, she had divined his thought. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Emerson's passion for nature was not like the passion of Keats or of Burns, of Coleridge or of Robert Browning; compared with these men he is cold. Emerson and Other Essays One of the best and most striking things to notice about Robert Browning is the fact that he did this thing considering it as an exception, and that he contrived to leave it really exceptional. Robert Browning Something has been told already in Mrs. Orr's 'Life of Robert Browning;' something more is told in the long and most interesting letter which stands first in the present chapter. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) And as the time draws nearer there is much searching of time-tables, in the art of mastering which Robert Browning seems hardly to have been an expert. Robert Browning But Robert Browning's nature was too strong to be subdued by grief. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors How wonderfully in his Saul does Robert Browning set forth the opposite course to that of the worrier. Quit Your Worrying! Thirdly, there is the yet more sensational theory that there was in Robert Browning a strain of the negro. Robert Browning The foregoing letters have shown something of Miss Barrett's admiration for the poetry of Robert Browning, and contain allusions to the beginning of their personal acquaintance. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Robert Browning, writes Mrs Orr, "was a handsome, vigorous, fearless child, and soon developed an unresting activity and a fiery temper." Robert Browning And so did this gossip of mixed parentage follow him that Mrs. Sutherland Orr, in her biography, takes an entire chapter to prove that in Robert Browning's veins there flowed neither Indian nor Negro blood. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Robert Browning's robust faith helps us in a different way. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4 The Higher Life Naturally she was not uninterested in Robert Browning, but it does not appear that she felt at this time the same kind of fiery artistic curiosity that he felt about her. Robert Browning Her astonishment may be imagined when, after this short interval of time, she found her invalid friend in Paris as the wife of Robert Browning. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) When his father spoke to him, Robert Browning knew that his sister was not dependent on any effort of his to provide the means of living. Robert Browning And beyond this, the fact is stated that Robert Browning was quite pleased when he used to be taken for a Jew—a conclusion made plausible by his complexion, hair and features. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors It was Procter who first in my hearing, twenty-five years ago, put such an estimate on the poetry of Robert Browning that I could not delay any longer to make acquaintance with his writings. Yesterdays with Authors Early one morning in September 1846 Miss Barrett walked quietly out of her father's house, became Mrs. Robert Browning in a church in Marylebone, and returned home again as if nothing had happened. Robert Browning I know better than any in the world, indeed, what Mr. Kenyon once unconsciously said before me—that 'Robert Browning is great in everything.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) "It was in answering Robert Browning;" she wrote, "that my mind refused to bring forward argument, turned recreant, and sided with the enemy." Robert Browning Robert Browning always fearlessly registered as soon as he got home—this according to Mrs. Orr. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors That great romance, "The Scarlet Letter," and these fine poets,—for true poetry, not at all imitative, is rare in England, common as elegant imitative verse may be,—and that charming edition of Robert Browning. Yesterdays with Authors His father, Robert Browning, was a man of great delicacy of taste, and to all appearance of an almost exaggerated delicacy of conscience. Robert Browning I heard of Carlyle's saying the other day 'that he hoped more from Robert Browning, for the people of England, than from any living English writer,' which pleased me, of course. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) The attachment of Robert Browning to his mother—"the true type of a Scottish gentlewoman," said Carlyle—was deep and intimate. Robert Browning Browning's father was a bank-clerk; and Robert Browning, the Third, author of "Paracelsus," could have secured his father's place in the Bank of England, if he had had ambitions. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors He cannot speak of the Kingdom of Heaven or of Robert Browning without it any more than of asparagus. Old and New Masters To these names should be added that of Robert Browning who, together with Shakespeare, has shown a truer insight into the real nature of music than any other English writers have manifested. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The fact that in Robert Browning there was a poet of equal calibre with Tennyson, though of so different a type, seems to have occurred to no one. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Robert Browning's father and mother were persons who for their own sakes deserve to be remembered. Robert Browning Robert Browning sprang from a line of clerks and small merchants; but as indemnity for the lack of a family 'scutcheon, we are told that his uncle, Reuben Browning, was a sure-enough poet. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Many of Mr. Hardy's poems are, as I have already said, dramatic lyrics on the pattern invented by Robert Browning—short stories in verse. Old and New Masters Of course, in the recollections of an Englishman living during those years in Florence, Robert Browning must necessarily stand out in high relief, and in the foremost line. What I Remember, Volume 2 She saw all with bewildered eyes, much as his neighbors looked upon the strange carriage of Lazarus, as represented by Robert Browning in the wonderful letter of the Arab physician. Paul Faber, Surgeon The love of music, which her Scottish-German father possessed in a high degree, leaping over a generation, reappeared in Robert Browning. Robert Browning And further, the fact is set forth with unction that Robert Browning was entrusted with a latchkey early in life, and that he always gave his mother a good-night kiss. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Robert Browning also translated the play, with appalling literalness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Carlyle, Mr Robert Browning, and George Meredith are the three essentially northern writers; in them there is nothing of Latin sensuality and subtlety. Confessions of a Young Man Or he would say, in Henry Bland's flute-like tones: "Your mention of Robert Browning induces me to relate an anecdote, which I think may prove not wholly uninteresting to you." Father Payne The publication of "The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning" has enabled me to construct a short, close-knit narrative of the incidents that led up to Browning's marriage. Robert Browning The world has never denied that Robert Browning was entrusted with a latchkey, and it cares little if occasionally, early in life, he fumbled for the keyhole. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors One person among the many who had read Miss Barrett's poems, felt their genius, because he had genius in his own soul, and that person was Robert Browning. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous After long and detailed instructions, he returned to his wheel, and set it to the making of a shape never seen in the potter's vision of Jeremiah or Robert Browning. Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India I went with her to one of Mrs. Orr's receptions, where we met Robert Browning, a fine-looking man of seventy years, with white hair and mustache. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 The most that one hopes for, in the way of literary interest, from such surroundings, is a muddled optimism, rather timidly expressed, based on the writings of Robert Browning and Carlyle. The Silent Isle Out of the stillness came a Voice to Robert Browning saying, "What hast thou done with the talent I gave thee?" Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Tears gathered in the eyes of Robert Browning, as he pointed out her chair, and sofa, and writing-table. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous The psychologic method in literature has also been that of Robert Browning, and he has been as faithful to it as any other. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Carlyle, Mr. Robert Browning, and George Meredith are the three essentially northern writers; in them there is nothing of Latin sensuality and subtlety. Confessions of a Young Man I recollect the timid expectation with which I went to meet Robert Browning—and the disappointment which I endured in his presence at his commonplace bonhomie, his facile, uninteresting talk. The Silent Isle Robert Browning was not discouraged—oh no, not that!—only the world seemed to stretch out in a dull, monotonous gray, where once it was green, the color of hope, and all decked with flowers. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Then and there Robert Browning poured his impassioned soul into hers; though his tale of love seemed only an enthusiast's dream. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous In two important particulars Robert Browning differs from George Eliot. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy The third section of Robert Browning's Parleyings with certain People of Importance in their Day drew attention to a Cambridge poet of whom little had hitherto been known, Christopher Smart, once fellow of Pembroke College. Gossip in a Library He condemns Robert Browning for his obscurity and praises George Meredith for his rich complexity. The Silent Isle The first of these has a unity and a definiteness of contour unusual with Shelley, and is, with the exception of some of Robert Browning's, the best English tragedy since Otway. From Chaucer to Tennyson The bliss of Robert Browning's home was broken up in this same form, of all-encompassing credulity, only it was Mrs. Browning who was the spiritualist in this case and resisted Browning's sanity in the matter. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 In her strong tendency to psychologic analysis George Eliot much resembles Robert Browning. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy The poet, Robert Browning, was of West Indian origin, and some of his intimate personal friends maintained and proved to their own satisfaction that he was partly of Negro descent. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays Many years after, when articles upon Robert Browning were as numerous as they once had been scarce, never a word betrayed that their authors knew of the existence of "Pauline". Life of Robert Browning He had nothing to urge against Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning A Guide-Book to the poetic and dramatic works of Robert Browning. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Looking about this institution, one is moved to misquote Robert Browning. Dear Enemy This beautiful story of conjugal devotion forms the subject of the Alcestis of Euripides, which furnished the basis of Robert Browning's Balaustion's Adventure. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Life and Letters of Robert Browning, 2nd edition. Life of Robert Browning Love to Tottie, and love and gratitude to you, dear Mr. Fox, From yours ever affectionately, Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Present or absent, you will remember me always, I trust, as Yours most affectionately, Robert Browning. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry I have only to glance at the published correspondence of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning to realize that the warmth of my style is not up to standard. Dear Enemy "Paracelsus," so denominated, was one of Robert Browning's earlier poems. "'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913 It is not my intention — it would, obviously, be a futile one, if entertained — to attempt an analysis or elaborate criticism of the many poems, long and short, produced by Robert Browning. Life of Robert Browning I wish you were here!—and if you knew exactly what such a wish means, you would need no assuring in addition that I am Yours affectionately and gratefully ever Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning A Handbook to the works of Robert Browning. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry I wonder if Robert Browning ever learned such Hymns when a child. Love's Final Victory The poem "Christmas Eve," by Robert Browning, with the accompanying poem "Easter Day," seems not to have attracted much notice from the readers of poetry, although highly prized by a few. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare They did not return direct to Italy after all, but wintered in Paris with Robert Browning the elder, who had retired to a small house in a street leading off the Champs Elysees. Life of Robert Browning You will till then, Dear Friend, remember me ever as yours affectionately, Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning —Mrs. Sutherland Orr's `Handbook to the works of Robert Browning', p. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Robert Browning, who was perhaps the happiest man in the nineteenth century, was particularly fortunate in his advent. Robert Browning: How to Know Him Be able to say,--"Miss Parsons, I should like to know about heraldry," or "about butterflies," or "about water-color painting," or "about Robert Browning," or "about the Mysteries of Udolpho." How to Do It It must suffice, here, that Miss Barrett was born on the 4th of March 1809,* and so was the senior, by three years, of Robert Browning. Life of Robert Browning I am ever and increasingly yours, Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning An appropriate general title to his works would be, `The Burden of Robert Browning to the 19th Century'. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry The relations between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning had all the wonder and beauty of a mediaeval romance, with the notable addition of being historically true. Robert Browning: How to Know Him One of the most curious of modern whims in Boston has been the study of the poems of Robert Browning. The Philistines Robert Browning was yet more difficult, owing to his overpowering taste for subtlety and the bizarre—nay, even the grotesque. Initiation into Literature There is my apology, dear friends, and your acceptance of it will confirm me Truly yours, Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning In something of the same spirit, Robert Browning, in the old days before he was comprehended, used to speak of "the entirely unintelligible Sordello," as if, sarcastically, to meet criticism half-way. Henrik Ibsen This is an exact description of the way Robert Browning walked the streets of Florence. Robert Browning: How to Know Him Robert Browning presents a highly instructive example of the poet as critic. Impressions and Comments In 1846, she was married to Robert Browning, the poet, and they lived for many years in Italy. The Canadian Elocutionist Four years later one of his English acquaintances in Paris, Mr. Frederick Locker, now Mr. Locker-Lampson, wrote to Robert Browning as follows: Dec. Life and Letters of Robert Browning In this Ibsen resembled Robert Browning, whose curiosity about the small incidents surrounding a large event was boundless. Henrik Ibsen Among English poets whose precocity was marked, we find the most noteworthy to be Robert Browning, whose first poetic effusion is ascribed to his fourth year. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Robert Browning, whose normality in appearance and conversation pleased sensible folk and shocked idolaters, summed up in two stanzas the difference between the popular conception of a poet and the real truth. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Not thus may one account for the generous heat of Whittier, of Richard Watson Gilder, of Robert Browning, of Tennyson, in rebuking the public which itches to make a posthumous investigation of a singer's character. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years It might sound grotesque to say that only a delicate woman could have been the mother of Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Then Miss Barrett married Robert Browning after a rather emotional and sentimental courtship, as reflected in certain extravagant pages of the Browning Letters. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived My earnest thanks are due to Mr. Robert Browning for his kind assistance and advice in interpreting the manuscript, otherwise so difficult to me. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life He has an aggressive champion in the distinguished novelist, May Sinclair, who says his best work is equal to the best of Robert Browning. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century "Of course you are self-conscious," Elizabeth Barrett wrote to Robert Browning. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years It was almost a matter of course that Robert Browning's father should be disinclined for bank work. Life and Letters of Robert Browning It is plain truth to say that no other English poet, living or dead, Shakespeare excepted, has so heaped up human interest for his readers as has Robert Browning. Obiter Dicta The union of James Russell Lowell to Maria White, of Watertown, was the most poetic marriage of the nineteenth century, and can only be compared to that of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Cambridge Sketches We might add: the life of spiritual mysticism and simplicity by Wordsworth; the completely balanced life by Tennyson; and the life of moral issues and dramatic moments by Robert Browning. A History of English Literature Alacrity or readiness would seem to have been one of Robert Browning's prominent characteristics. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne This Shelley period of Robert Browning's life—that which intervened between 'Incondita' and 'Pauline'—remained, nevertheless, one of rebellion and unrest, to which many circumstances may have contributed besides the influence of the one mind. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Married Robert Browning 1846, and resided in Italy for the remainder of her life. It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration Victorian age was dominated by two great poets,—Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson. Halleck's New English Literature In general consider the application of the statements in the text; and in the case of Robert Browning consider emotional, dramatic, descriptive, and narrative power, poetic beauty, and adaptation of the verse-form to the substance. A History of English Literature It will be with him as with Lazarus, in Robert Browning's poem, "The Epistle of Karshish." Joy & Power I am, dear sir, Yours most truly and obliged, Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning He made the acquaintance, which ripened into friendship, in Italy, of Robert Browning and his wife, and of Coventry Patmore, the author of "The Angel in the House," a poem which he greatly liked. Hawthorne and His Circle With such health, Robert Browning felt a keen relish for physical existence and a robust joyousness in all kinds of activity. Halleck's New English Literature His somewhat timid disposition, moreover, never allowed him to enunciate his conclusions with anything like the buoyant aggressiveness of his contemporary, Robert Browning. A History of English Literature Biographical and Historical: Robert Browning was born in a suburb of London in 1812. Elson Grammar School Literature v4 This Mr. Domett seems to have been a very modest man, besides a devoted friend of Robert Browning's, and on occasion a warm defender of his works. Life and Letters of Robert Browning In modern poetry she read freely Tennyson and Robert Browning, and admired them both. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography As Robert Browning says, there indeed was "trouble enough for one!" Where No Fear Was In considering the poetry of Robert Browning the inevitable first general point is the nearly complete contrast with Tennyson. A History of English Literature XIV Well, any how, here the story stays, So far at least as I understand; And, Robert Browning, you writer of plays, Here's a subject made to your hand! Dramatic Romances So few professions were thought open to gentlemen in Robert Browning's eighteenth year, that his father's acquiescence in that which he had chosen might seem a matter scarcely less of necessity than of kindness. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Five years afterwards I was asked for two literary lectures by the same committee, and I chose as my subjects the works of Elizabeth Browning and those of her husband, Robert Browning. An Autobiography Let us take a brilliant example from the poems of Robert Browning. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Robert Browning, Tennyson's chief poetic contemporary, stands in striking artistic contrast to Tennyson—a contrast which perhaps serves to enhance the reputation of both. A History of English Literature His body sleeps next to that of his friend and fellow-poet, Robert Browning, in front of Chaucer's monument in the Abbey. Alfred Tennyson Your unworthy son, in things literary, Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning The first gift to his wife after marriage was Elizabeth Browning's poems in two volumes and Robert Browning's "Plays and Dramatic Lyrics" in two volumes, and Mary and I delighted in them all. An Autobiography It is the creation--or recreation--of Robert Browning, the most illuminating interpreter of the workings of the human mind that England has produced since Shakespeare died. Songs of the Ridings It is one of the puzzling phases of Mark Twain's character that, notwithstanding his passion for direct and lucid expression, he should have found pleasure in the poems of Robert Browning. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) The end of 1884 saw the publication of Tiresias and other Poems, dedicated to "My good friend, Robert Browning," and opening with the beautiful verses to one who never was Mr Browning's friend, Edward FitzGerald. Alfred Tennyson Believe me, in return, Dear sir, Yours faithfully and obliged, Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning He was undecided about the lines from Robert Browning, for he feared they would be above the heads of his hearers. Dubliners After Robert Browning Where'er there's a thistle to feed a linnet And linnets are plenty, thistles rife— Or an acorn-cup to catch dew-drops in it There's ample promise of further life. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 Well, anyhow, here the story stays, So far at least as I understand; And, Robert Browning, you writer of plays, Here's a subject made to your hand! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Robert Browning in his poem "By the Fireside" has said a fitting word: Oh, I must feel your brain prompt mine, Your heart anticipate my heart. The Women of the French Salons But the poetic individuality of Robert Browning was stronger than any circumstance through which it could be fed. Life and Letters of Robert Browning The poems of Robert Browning supply brilliant examples of this power. The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry They threw themselves down on the straw, and Hugh, opening a volume of Robert Browning's Poems, read the famous ride from Ghent to Aix. David Elginbrod "I particularly," my hostess whispered to me, "want you to know Mr. Robert Browning." And Even Now There was Robert Browning, the philosopher, doffing his hat with a courtly sweep to more than one Duchess. The Works of Max Beerbohm Robert Browning was born, as has been often repeated, at Camberwell, on May 7, 1812, soon after a great comet had disappeared from the sky. Life and Letters of Robert Browning There is no need of much word on the spell of the Bible over Robert Browning and Mrs. Browning. Study of the King James Bible May 7, 1912, was the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning. A Parody Outline of History He too has been immortalised in a poem which you all ought to have read, one of Robert Browning’s earliest and one of his best creations. Historical Lectures and Essays Robert Browning used to say that every great man has Jewish blood in him, and we must try to look at it in that light. Night and Day With best regards to Mrs. Hill, and an apology for this long letter, which however,—when once induced to write it,—I could not well shorten,—believe me, Yours truly ever Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning The lines of Robert Browning's poems in which he sets forth the glory of the life of aspiration — aspiration independent of any achievement — ring in one's ears, as he reads the story of Lanier's life. A Biography of Sidney Lanier The story of the Piper of Hamelin, well known in the version of Robert Browning, leads to the same conclusion. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology It is also a matter of history that Robert Browning had many deep and constant admirers in England, and still more in America,* long before this organized interest had developed itself. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Two days after his temporary funeral, privately and at night, all that remained of Robert Browning was conveyed to the railway station; and thence, by a trusted servant, to England. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Their author is still the same Robert Browning, though here and there visibly touched by the hand of time. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Believe me, my dear Sir, Yours very sincerely, Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning With all love from us both, ever affectionately yours Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning A few words must still be said upon that purport and tendency of Robert Browning's work, which has been defined by a few persons, and felt by very many as his 'message'. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Mr. Robert Browning, the author of 'Paracelsus', came in after dinner; I was very much pleased to meet him. Life and Letters of Robert Browning We are told by Mr. Sharp that a new star appeared in Orion on the night on which Robert Browning died. Life and Letters of Robert Browning S.'s love goes with mine—who am ever yours Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Believe me, dear Professor Knight, yours very truly, Robert Browning. Life and Letters of Robert Browning |
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