Never 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 come, the men of that May touch the impress with reverent hand, and say " Behold, — behold... Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britainby Simon Dentith - 2006Limited preview - About this book
| 1857 - 878 pages
...Was commonplace to Lady Guenevcr ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch...say, ' Behold, — behold the paps we all have sucked ! That bosom seems to beat still, or at least It sets ours beating. This is living art, Which thus... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 pages
...Was commonplace to Lady Guenever; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat, As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch...say ' Behold, — behold the paps we all have sucked ! That bosom seems to beat still, or at least It sets ours beating. This is living art, Which thus... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 404 pages
...commonplace to Lady Guenever ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat, As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch...say ' Behold, — behold the paps we all have sucked ! That bosom seems to beat still, or at least It sets ours beating. This is living art, . Which thus... | |
| 1857 - 804 pages
...Was commouplace to Lady Guencvcr ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Bogent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch...reverent hand, and say, ' Behold,— behold the paps we have all nicked!' That bosom seems to beat still, or at least It sets ours beating. This is living... | |
| 1857 - 820 pages
...Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupnlously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song, The full-veined,...that May touch the Impress with reverent hand, and «ay, ' Behold, — behold the paps we have all sucked !' That bosom seems to beat »till, or at least... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 pages
...Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song, The full- veined, heaving, double-breasted Age : That, when the next...say 'Behold, — behold the paps we all have sucked !'" The contrast is almost savage. Burning lava and a woman's breast ! and concentrated in the latter... | |
| 1857 - 496 pages
...last poem, she has the following passage to express and illustrate a poet's rendering of his age : " Never 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 come, the men of that May touch... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 420 pages
...commonplace to Lady 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 a song, The full- veined, heaving, double-breasted Age : That, when the next shall come, the men of that May touch... | |
| 1857 - 494 pages
...last poem, she has the following passage to express and illustrate a poet's rendering of his age : " Never 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 come, the men of that May touch... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...her last poem she has the following passage to express and illustrate a poet's rendering of his age : "Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch...say, ' Behold, — behold the paps we all have sucked !' " The contrast is almost savage. Burning lava and a woman's breast ! and concentrated in the latter... | |
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