 THAT'S my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra Pandolf...  The English Review - Page 3821849Full view - About this book
 | 1909 - 338 pages
...Truth's pure votaries may not leave their dust. 20 H. TAYLOR. 4/. My Last 'Duchess Ferrara ""THAT 's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now : Fra PandolPs hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will 't please you sit and look at... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 348 pages
...But as a literature. type — somewhat extreme, perhaps — take Browning's MY LAST DUCHESS That 'a my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf 's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will 't please you sit and look at... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Henry Milner Rideout - 1909 - 334 pages
...be mute : " Athens is saved ! " — Pheidippides dies in the shout for his meed. XII MY LAST DUCHESS That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call 815 That piece a wonder, now : Fra Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlin - 2010 - 498 pages
...recording ("Is it real or is it Memorex?"). Sometimes it is as ample as the gap between life and death: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive." But representation does give us something in return for the tax it demands, the gap it opens. One of... | |
 | William Gerber - 1997 - 252 pages
...the incredible vitality of a painting which Robert Browning (1812-1889) owned led him to write: (204) That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking...as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder. John Rusk in (1819-1900), a contemporary of Browning, said that greatness in a painting results from... | |
 | Kenneth Koch - 1999 - 324 pages
...time This coyness, lady, were no crime (MARVELL, "To His Coy Mistress") with five, iambic pentameter: That's my last Duchess painted on the wall Looking...if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now . . . (BROWNING, "My Last Duchess") with six feet, an alexandrine: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...second and third of the following lines from Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" illustrate enjambment: That's my last duchess painted on the wall, Looking...if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder now: Fra PandolPs hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Enlightenment: The Enlightenment was... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - 2001 - 276 pages
...are for me a sort of watchword, a manner (sometimes a grand one) of speaking. MY LAST DUCHESS Ferrara That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking...if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf 's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will 't please you sit and look at... | |
 | Sergio Perosa - 2000 - 132 pages
...Portraits There are two ways of understanding the portrait: history and the novel. Baudelaire, Du Portrait That's my last duchess painted on the wall Looking as if she were alive. R. Browning, My Last Duchess When Robert Browning wrote these lines, little did he know that he was... | |
 | Matthew Reynolds - 2005 - 322 pages
...to us by the relation between freedom and law in the verse with which Browning represents his voice: That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking...if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.68 Here at the opening there is a momentary... | |
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