Letters and Essays ...: Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, addressed to Richard Hengist HorneJ. Miller, 1877 |
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Стр. v - And I think of those long mornings Which my thought goes far to seek, When, betwixt the folio's turnings, Solemn flowed the rhythmic Greek. Past the pane, the mountain spreading, Swept the sheep-bell's tinkling noise, While a girlish voice was reading Somewhat low for ai's and oit.
Стр. xxx - This I say of me, but think of you, Love ! This to you — yourself my moon of poets! Ah, but that's the world's side — there's the wonder — Thus they see you, praise you, think they know you. There in turn I stand with them and praise you, Out of my own self, I dare to phrase it. But the best is when I glide from out them, Cross a step or two of dubious twilight, Come out on the other side, the novel Silent silver lights and darks undream'd of, Where I hush and bless myself with silence.
Стр. 90 - Pope's Homer done over again, or rather undone ; for although a curious production for a child, it gives evidence only of an imitative faculty, and an ear, and a good deal of reading in a peculiar direction.
Стр. 246 - But I hope you will assure him from me that I am grateful for his reviews, and in no complaining humor at all. As to the ' ' Raven' ' tell me what you shall say about it. There is certainly a power — but it does not appear to me the natural expression of a sane intellect in whatever mood ; and I think that this should be specified in the title of the poem. There is a fantasticalness about the...
Стр. 229 - It's against my theories and ratiocinations, which take upon themselves to assert that we all generally err by reading too much and out of proportion to what we think. I should be wiser, I am persuaded, if I had not read half as much— should have had stronger and better exercised faculties, and should stand higher in my own appreciation. The fact is that the ne plus 327 ultra of intellectual indolence is this reading of books.
Стр. x - A sweet young woman, whom we called for in Gloucester Place, went with us — a Miss Barrett — who reads Greek as I do French, and has published some translations from JEschylus, and some most striking poems. She is a delightful young creature ; shy and timid and modest. Nothing but desire to see me got her out at all, but now she is coming to us to-morrow night also.
Стр. xxviii - To see him lying still on his golden curls, with cheeks too scarlet to suit the poor patient eyes, looking so frightfully like an angel ! It was very hard. But this is over, I do thank God, and we are on the point of carrying back our treasure with us to Florence to-morrow, quite recovered, if a little thinner and weaker, and the young voice as merry as ever. You are aware that that child I am more proud of than twenty Auroras, even after Leigh Hunt has praised them. He is eight years old, has never...
Стр. 207 - GODS of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence ? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide ? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore ? Pan, Pan is dead.
Стр. xxvii - Dear friend, I will say ;~ for I feel it must be something as good as friendship that can forgive and understand this silence, so much like the veriest human kind of ingratitude. When I look back and think — all this time after that letter, and not a sign made — I wonder. Yet, if you knew ! First of all, we were silent because we waited for information which you seemed to desire Then there were sadder reasons. Poor Aurora...
Стр. 213 - ... never sees anybody but the members of her own family, and one or two others. She has a high opinion of the skill in reading, as well as the fine taste, of Mr. , and she gets him to read her new poems aloud to her, and so tries them upon him (as well as herself), something after the manner of Moliere with regard to a far less elegant authority.