 | 1857 - 878 ページ
...aspires, And spends more passion, moro heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms. Than Koland with his knights, at Roncesvalles. To flinch from...foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commonplace to Lady Guenevcr ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 ページ
...this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,...Guenever; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat, As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 420 ページ
...heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Eoland with his knights, at Eoncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry...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... | |
 | 1857 - 804 ページ
...heroic boat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Boland with his knights, at Boncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or 'flounce Cry...picturesque, Is fatal,— foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commouplace to Lady Guencvcr ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Bogent Street to poets. Never... | |
 | 1857 - 802 ページ
...this love-throbbing age, that brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, and spends more passion, more heroic heat, betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms than Roland with his knights at Roneasvalles." There are many lines of concentrated force, many of quiet beauty, in the poem, but not... | |
 | 1857 - 802 ページ
...this love-throbbing age, that brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, and spends more passion, more heroic heat, betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms than Roland with his knights at Roncasvalles." There are many lines of concentrated force, many of quiet beauty, in the poem, but not... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 404 ページ
...this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Koncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque,... | |
 | 1857 - 820 ページ
...this live throbbing age. That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of Its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Eoncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce Cry out for togas and the picturesque,... | |
 | 1858 - 572 ページ
...this live, throbbing age Which brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles, Louis Napoleon among his docks and ships and guns at Cherbourg, has seen England and America united... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 422 ページ
...aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Eoland with his knights, at Roncesvalles. To flinch from...Guenever ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat, As Begerit street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon a burning lava of... | |
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To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, Is fatal, — foolish too. 
