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Letter "E" » Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
«It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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association, dearly, likeness, memorial, memorials, monstrous, nearness, noblest, portraits, sanctification, The Association
«What was he doing, the great god Pan, / Down in the reeds by the river? / Spreading ruin and scattering ban, / Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, / And breaking the golden lilies afloat / With the dragon-fly on the river.»
«Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!»
«We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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easy chair, God damn, jeopardy, pardon, patriots, popes, risked, stamped, statesmen
«Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''»
«I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Grief
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access, anguish, hopeless, incredulous, passionless, reproach, shriek, shrieked, shrieking, shrieks, The Midnight, throne, upward
«Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
«I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.»
«`Guess now who holds thee?' - `Death', I said, but there / The silver answer rang, . . . `Not Death, but Love.'»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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rang
«Books succeed, and lives fail.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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