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Página 17 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, 30 It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Página 16 - In ocean-smelling osier, and his face, Rough-redden'd with a thousand winter gales, Not only to the market-cross were known, But in the leafy lanes behind the down, Far as the portal-warding lion-whelp, And peacock yewtree of the lonely Hall, Whose Friday fare was Enoch's ministering.
Página 17 - If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home.
Página 19 - Wasps in a bottle, frogs in a sieve; Worms in a carcass, fleas in a sleeve. Hist ! square shoulders, settle your thumbs And buzz for the bishop — here he comes.
Página 17 - If men be worlds, there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the world's riches : and in good men, this Virtue, our form's form, and our soul's soul, is.
Página 16 - It deals, to use the language of science, not with normal types but with abnormal specimens ; to use the language of old philosophy, not with what nature is striving to be, but with what by some lapse the has happened to become.
Página 14 - THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE A GRAVEN IMAGE, nor the likeness of any form that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
Página 15 - It wishes to surround the type with the greatest number of circumstances which it will bear. It works not by choice and selection, but by accumulation and aggregation. The idea is not, as in the pure style, presented with the least clothing which it will endure, but with the richest and most involved clothing that it will admit.
Página 20 - ... the distorted and imperfect image. Of this art we possess in the present generation one prolific master. Mr. Browning is an artist working by incongruity. Possibly hardly one of his most considerable efforts can be found which is not great because of its odd mixture. He puts together things which no one else would have put together, and produces on our minds a result which no one else would have produced, or tried to produce.
Página 15 - ... peculiarity is not merely that no incidental circumstance is inserted which does not tell on the main design : no art is fit to be called art which permits a stroke to be put in without an object ; but that only the minimum of such circumstance is inserted at all. The form is sometimes said to be bare, the accessories are sometimes said to be invisible, because the appendages are so choice that the shape only is perceived. The English literature undoubtedly contains much impure literature ; impure...