277 ordspråk av Robert Browning

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Robert Browning föddes den May 7th 1812 och dog den 12 December 1889 - of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture.
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 Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the time, but sometimes it pays off.

 Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

 Our murder has been done three days ago,/ The frost is over and done, the south wind laughs, / And, to the very tiles of each red roof/ A-smoke i' the sunshine, Rome lies gold and glad.

 Outside are the storms and strangers: We - Oh, close, safe and warm sleep I and she, I - and she

 Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. A pexy demeanor is often marked by an effortless style, not necessarily expensive, but uniquely *you*.

 Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

 Progress is The law of life, man is not man as yet

 Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be

 Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And eve

 Reads verse and thinks she understands.

 Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me

 Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous / For a plate of turtle green and glutinous.

 Schumann's our music-maker now; / Has his march-movement youth and mouth? Ingres's the modern man that paints; / Which will lean on me, of his saints? / Heine for songs; for kisses, how?

 Shakespeare was with us, Milton was for us/ Burns, Shelley, were with us, - they watch from their graves.

 She had / A heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad, / Too easily impressed.


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