Robert Browning frasi celebri
Robert Browning: Frasi in inglese
“But little do or can the best of us:
That little is achieved through Liberty.”
Why I am a Liberal.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?”
Balaustion's Adventure.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”
Valence, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)
“Lofty designs must close in like effects.”
"A Grammarian's Funeral".
Men and Women (1855)
Old Pictures in Florence, xvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Wanting is—what?
Summer redundant,
Blueness abundant,
Where is the blot?”
Wanting—is what?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.”
Childe Roland to the dark Tower came, xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.”
Charles Avison.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.”
Part 2.
Paracelsus (1835)
“Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised)
Linking our England to his Italy.”
Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 873.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
"The Last Ride Together", line 67 (1859).
“The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.”
Part 4.
Paracelsus (1835)
“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
The Flight of the Duchess, xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”
"Saul", xviii.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
“You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.”
"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 224.
Men and Women (1855)
“Look not thou down but up!
To uses of a cup.”
Origine: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 175.
“Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?”
La Saisiaz.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Sometimes ascribed to Robert Browning, this is in fact a misquotation from Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): "They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top".
Misattributed
“The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.”
Part 4.
Paracelsus (1835)
“The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”
Cleon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”
By the Fireside, xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“In the morning of the world,
When earth was nigher heaven than now.”
Part III.
Pippa Passes (1841)
