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... crowns among her lovers , you Shall be reminded to predict to me Some great success ! Ah , see ! the sun sinks broad Behind St. Saviour's : wholly gone , at last ! Fest . Now , Aureole , stay those wandering eyes awhile ! You are ours ...
... crowns among her lovers , you Shall be reminded to predict to me Some great success ! Ah , see ! the sun sinks broad Behind St. Saviour's : wholly gone , at last ! Fest . Now , Aureole , stay those wandering eyes awhile ! You are ours ...
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... crown your dearest wish , With a tumultuous heart , you left with me Our childhood's home to join the favoured few Whom , here at Würzburg , Tritheim deigns to teach A portion of his lore and not the best Of those so favoured , whom you ...
... crown your dearest wish , With a tumultuous heart , you left with me Our childhood's home to join the favoured few Whom , here at Würzburg , Tritheim deigns to teach A portion of his lore and not the best Of those so favoured , whom you ...
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... crown my mortal forehead with a beam From thine own blinding crown - to smile , and guide This puny hand , and let the work so framed Be styled my work , -hear me ! I covet not An influx of new power , an angel's soul : It were no ...
... crown my mortal forehead with a beam From thine own blinding crown - to smile , and guide This puny hand , and let the work so framed Be styled my work , -hear me ! I covet not An influx of new power , an angel's soul : It were no ...
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... Crown me ? I am not one of you ! ' Tis he , the king , you seek . I am not one . . . Par . Give me thy spirit , at least ! Let me love , too ! I have attained , and now I may depart . III - PARACELSUS . SCENE - A chamber in the house of ...
... Crown me ? I am not one of you ! ' Tis he , the king , you seek . I am not one . . . Par . Give me thy spirit , at least ! Let me love , too ! I have attained , and now I may depart . III - PARACELSUS . SCENE - A chamber in the house of ...
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... rank with them— Angels , this is our angel ! —those bright forms We clothe with purple , crown and call to thrones , Are human , but not his : those are but men Whom other men press round and kneel before- Those palaces PARACELSUS . 121.
... rank with them— Angels , this is our angel ! —those bright forms We clothe with purple , crown and call to thrones , Are human , but not his : those are but men Whom other men press round and kneel before- Those palaces PARACELSUS . 121.
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Adolf Asolo Avicenna Basil Berth beside better brow Chambery Charles Cleves Clug Court Courtiers crown D'Ormea dare dear Aureole doubt dream Duchess Duke earth Einsiedeln eyes face faint father fear Fest Festus fool Gaucelme Girl give God's Guibert hair hand hate hear heart heaven hope Jules Juliers keep King lady laugh leave live look Luigi Malamocco Michal mind morning ne'er never night nought o'er once Oporinus Otti Paracelsus past pause PIPPA PIPPA passes Polyxena Possagno praise Prince Berthold prove ROBERT BROWNING Sardinia saw thro seems sing Sire smile soul Spain speak spirit stay strange strength sure talk tell thee There's thing thou thought true trust truth Turin turn Twas VALENCE Victor what's words Würzburg
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Page 165 - DAY! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last : Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim Where spurting and suppressed it lay. For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of the eastern cloud, an hour away ; But forth one wavelet, then another, curled, Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed...
Page 148 - ... in man's self arise August anticipations, symbols, types Of a dim splendour ever on before In that eternal circle life pursues. For men begin to pass their nature's bound, And find new hopes and cares which fast supplant Their proper joys and griefs ; they grow too great For narrow creeds of right and wrong, which fade Before the unmeasured thirst for good : while peace Rises within them ever more and more. Such men are even now upon the earth, Serene amid the half-formed creatures round Who...
Page 31 - Are there not, Festus, are there not. dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver, One — when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge, One — when, a prince, he rises with his pearl ? Festus, I plunge ! Fest.
Page 151 - I learned my own deep error; love's undoing Taught me the worth of love in man's estate, And what proportion love should hold with power In his right constitution; love preceding Power, and with much power, always much more love; Love still too straitened in his present means, And earnest for new power to set love free.
Page 21 - I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way — I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not: but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet, or stifling snow, In some time — his good time — I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Mich.
Page 181 - God's messenger thro' the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee and me: then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead — Sebald.
Page 81 - I cannot feed on beauty for the sake Of beauty only, nor can drink in balm From lovely objects for their loveliness ; My nature cannot lose her first imprint ; I...
Page 27 - Blinds it, and makes all error : and ' to know ' Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Page 166 - A mite of my twelve hours' treasure, The least of thy gazes or glances, (Be they grants thou art bound to or gifts above measure) One of thy choices or one of thy chances, (Be they tasks God imposed thee or freaks at thy pleasure) — My Day, if I squander such labor or leisure, Then shame fall on Asolo, mischief on me!
Page 27 - Truth is within ourselves ; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe : There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness...