 A little overgrown (I think there is), Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's - this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors...  Poems - Página 163por Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1857 - 878 páginas
...aspires, And spends more passion, moro heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms. Than Koland with his knights, at Roncesvalles. To flinch from...foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commonplace to Lady Guenevcr ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 páginas
...aspires, And spends more passions, more heroic heat Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights at Roncesvalles. » To flinch...Guenever • And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Fleet street to our poets." This is excellent; but it is pleasant to know that " our poets " are not... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 páginas
...aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles. To flinch...flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song, The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted Age : That, when the next shall... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 404 páginas
...heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Koncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry...flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song, The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted Age : That, when the next shall... | |
 | 1857 - 820 páginas
...heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of Its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Eoncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce Cry...As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupnlously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song, The full-veined, heaving, double-breasted... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 420 páginas
...heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Eoland with his knights, at Eoncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry...Guenever; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat, • As Eegent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of... | |
 | 1857 - 804 páginas
...heroic boat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Boland with his knights, at Boncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or 'flounce Cry...picturesque, Is fatal,— foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commouplace to Lady Guencvcr ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Bogent Street to poets. Never... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 422 páginas
...aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Eoland with his knights, at Roncesvalles. To flinch from...Guenever ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat, As Begerit street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon a burning lava of... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1863 - 358 páginas
...heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing rooms, Than Roland with his knights at Boncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat, or flounce, Cry...togas and the picturesque, Is fatal— foolish too. - * * * ' • " Never flinch, But, still unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1863 - 360 páginas
...aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing rooms, Than Roland with his knights at Roncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat, or flounce, Ory out for togas and the picturesque, Is fatal— foolish too. * * * "Never flinch, But, still unscrupulously... | |
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