Robert Browning frasi celebri
Robert Browning: Frasi in inglese
“Sky—what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
Splendid, a star!”
The two Poets of Croisic.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Statue and the Bust.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.”
Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond (1842), xiii.
“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”
"A Toccata of Galuppi's", line 42.
Men and Women (1855)
“Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.”
Part 5.
Paracelsus (1835)
“Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.”
Two in the Campagna, xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.”
Book VII: Pompilia, line 357.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach”
Cenciaja.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Apparent Failure, vii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Deeds let escape are never to be done.”
Book the Third
Sordello (1840)
And Law does listen and compose the strife,
Settle the suit, how wisely and how well!
On our Pompilia, faultless to a fault,
Law bends a brow maternally severe,
Implies the worth of perfect chastity,
By fancying the flaw she cannot find.
Book IX : Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius, Fisci et Rev. Cam. Apostol. Advocatus.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
"Andrea del Sarto", line 70
"Less is more" is often misattributed to architects Buckminster Fuller or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It is something of a motto for minimalist philosophy. It was used in 1774 by Christoph Martin Wieland.
Men and Women (1855)
Why "small"?
Costs it more pain that this ye call
A "great event" should come to pass
From that? Untwine me from the mass
Of deeds which make up life, one deed
Power shall fall short in or exceed!
Introduction.
Pippa Passes (1841)
“As if true pride
Were not also humble!”
In an Album.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He said true things, but called them by the wrong names.”
Origine: Men and Women (1855) "Bishop Blougram's Apology", line 996.
