Frasi di Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning è stata una poetessa inglese, moglie del poeta Robert Browning.

✵ 6. Marzo 1806 – 29. Giugno 1861   •   Altri nomi Elizabeth Barret Browningová, ಎಲಿಜಬೆತ್ ಬ್ಯಾರೆಟ್ ಬ್ರೌನಿಂಗ್
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“Un luogo ove restare e amare un giorno | Nel buio e l'ora della morte attorno.”

Origine: Citato in Charles Morgan, La fontana, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1961.

“Ti amo non tanto per ciò che sei, bensì per ciò che io sono quando sono con te.”

Origine: Citato in Roberta Giommi, Sesso under 18, Sperling & Kupfer, 2010, p. 91 http://books.google.it/books?id=EAs738jJJG4C&pg=PA91.

“La terra è riempita di cielo, | e ogni banale cespuglio | è ardente di Dio: | ma soltanto colui che vede | si toglie i calzari.”

Origine: Citato in Piccolo beviario zen, a cura di David Schiller, traduzione di Francesco Saba Sardi, Sonzogno, p. 233. ISBN 8845407187

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Frasi in inglese

“But so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware.”

Bianca Among the Nightingales http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3035&poem=127031, st. 12 (1862).

“Guess now who holds thee?"—"Death," I said. But there
The silver answer rang—"Not Death, but Love.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning libro Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. I
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

“Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which, if cut deep down the middle,
shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined humanity.”

Lady Geraldine's Courtship http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ebbrowning/bl-ebbrown-togeorge1.htm, st. 41 (1844).

“Every wish
Is like a prayer—with God.”

Book II.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)

“She has seen the mystery hid
Under Egypt's pyramid:
By those eyelids pale and close
Now she knows what Rhamses knows.”

Little Mattie, Stanza ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.”

To George Sand, A Desire http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ebbrowning/bl-ebbrown-togeorge1.htm (1844).

“The beautiful seems right
By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.”

Book II.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

Grief http://www.webterrace.com/browning/Grief.htm, l. 1 (1844).

“But since he had
The genuis to be loved, why let him have
The justice to be honoured in his grave.”

Crowned and Buried, xxvii reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“"Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, Sir, I say.
Colours seen by candlelight,
Will not look the same by day.”

The Lady's Yes http://www.webterrace.com/browning/The%20Ladys%20Yes.htm, st. 1 (1844).

“God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning libro Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. XXIV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

“That he, in his developed manhood, stood
A little sunburnt by the glare of life;
While I.. it seemed no sun had shone on me.”

Bk. IV, l. 1139-1141.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)

“Dreams of doing good
For good-for-nothing people.”

Book II.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)

“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in't.”

Bk. II, l. 952-954.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)

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