...in its place. The smile of a man, finally slipping the leash. —and if she let Part IV: April, 1634 Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set Her wits to...would be some stooping, and I choose Never to stoop. Chapter 29 Stoner began to realize, as he stared at the forbidding stack of documents in front of him,...

...social inferiors: as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody's gift . . . Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her;...smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Browning means us to see the irony of 'As if alive' - an irony that cuts at those who prefer the deadness...

...enters.) ABE: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. . . . ... Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? . . ." My last Duchess—I didn't have her killed. She left me, and for a woman! Kiel, West Germany,...

...an one, and say, 'Just this Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, Or there exceed the mark' - and if she let Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly...excuse, - E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose by design: deliberately countenance: face puts by: pulls aside but: except durst: dared 'twas: it was...

...contrast to that of the proud duke, is carried out entirely through the discussion of the portrait: Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her;...I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. (43-46) The revelation of the character of the duke becomes an accompaniment to our understanding the...

...alive, "Even had you skill / In speech (which I have not) make your will /Quite clear to such an one.... /E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose /Never to stoop." The aristocrat never stoops; the peasant or proletarian stoops to harvest or to tend the machine. The...