Robert Browning's Poetical Works: Dramatic romances. Christmas-eve and Easter-daySmith, Elder, & Company, 1889 |
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beauty beneath blood bound brain breast breath brow Browning burned caught CHARLES DARWIN cheek Christ Clement Marot Crown 8vo dark Dark Tower doubt dream drop Duchess Duke Duke's earth Edition ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes face faith feast fire flesh FRANK BUCKLAND GEORGE DU MAURIER Gipsy Gismond give glad God's grew guilders hair hand head heart heaven Jacynth knew lady lady's leave life's lips live looked man's mind never night o'er once past Piper plain porphyry Portrait praise pride prove rats reach RICHARD DOYLE ride ROBERT BROWNING rose round seemed shut singing sleep smile soul stand stood sure sure as fate thee there's thine thing thou art thought thro truth turned Twixt voice W. M. THACKERAY Waring Weser whole WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY wings wonder word
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Seite 107 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Seite 114 - They made a decree that lawyers never Should think their records dated duly If, after the day of the month and year, These words did not as well appear, "And so long after what happened here On the twenty-second of July, Thirteen hundred and seventy-six.
Seite 205 - There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides — met To view the last of me, a living frame For one more picture ! in a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set And blew. " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.
Seite 4 - Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy: You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. "Well," cried he, "Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon!
Seite 8 - For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart — how shall I say? — too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. Sir, 'twas all one!
Seite 9 - In speech (which I have not) to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this "Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, "Or there exceed the mark...
Seite 108 - You should have heard the Hamelin people Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple. 'Go,' cried the Mayor, 'and get long poles! Poke out the nests and block up the holes! Consult with carpenters and builders, And leave in our town not even a trace Of the rats!' - when suddenly, up the face Of the Piper perked in the market-place, With a, 'First, if you please, my thousand guilders!
Seite 202 - Then came a bit of stubbed ground, once a wood, Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood Changes and off he goes!) within a rood Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.
Seite 8 - Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Seite 102 - 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 cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: