| 1892 - 960 pages
...his singing." He says that in " modern times" : — " No man hath walkt along onr roads with step Bo active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse."...saying this Landor anticipated by half a lifetime the veidict which a later generation has passed upon Browning's influence as a poet — an influence the... | |
| 1892 - 520 pages
...world's, Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walkt along our roads with step So active,...so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing; the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest with,... | |
| 1892 - 524 pages
...world's, Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walkt along our roads with step So active,...so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing; the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest with,... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1892 - 404 pages
...world's, r Therefore on him no speech ! and brief for thee, Browning ! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walkt along our roads with step So active,...so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing : the breeze Of Alpine highths thou playest... | |
| Maria S. Porter - 1893 - 86 pages
...Landor, to whom his devotion was so great : — " Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man has walked our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse." Browning's faith in immortality, and in the Power which is his expression for Divine Love, is best... | |
| Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 pages
...world's, Therefore on him no speech ! and brief for thee, Browning ! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walkt along our roads with step So active,...so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing : the breeze Of Alpine highths thou playest... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1894 - 514 pages
...writes of him in lines crowded with suggestion : " Since Chaucer was alive and hale No man hath walked along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse." * Such allusions bring Browning before us as the keenly observant man of the world, alive to his very... | |
| Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 pages
...and brief for thee, speare. Browning ! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, Chaucer. No man hath walk'd along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing: the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest with,... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 388 pages
...him no speech ! and brief for thee, Browning ! Since Chaucer was alive and bale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing : the breeze Of Alpine heights thou playest... | |
| 1895 - 376 pages
...majestic, free," or Landor's of Browning : " Since Chaucer was alive and hale No man has walk M along oar roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse," or Arnold's of Goethe: " He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear... | |
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