The Ring and the Book, Band 1Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1869 |
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Abate Arezzo Augustinian babe Baccano bade bed and board beside brain breath brother brow Canon Caponsacchi caught cheat child church cockatrice Comparini confessed Count Guido court cried crime dare death deed door dowry eyes face fact fault fear Fiesole Fisc flesh Foligno fool Guido Franceschini guilt hand hate head heart heaven heir hell husband innocent judge lady laugh law and gospel leave letters light look lords marriage mind Molinists murder never night o'er once Paolo Philosophic Sin Pietro play Pompilia poor Pope pray priest prove punished Rome round Saint Saint Peter sake shame Sirs smile soul stand street's end sweet lords tale tell there's thing thought told tonsure took touch truth turn twixt usufruct villa Violante wife wife's word wrong
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Seite 48 - ... taught song by gift of thee, •." " Except with bent head and beseeching hand — That still, despite the distance and the dark, What was, again may be ; some interchange Of grace, some splendour once thy very thought, Some benediction anciently thy smile : — Never conclude, but raising hand and head Thither where eyes, that cannot reach, yet yearn • For all hope, all sustainment, all reward, Their utmost up and on,— so blessing back In those thy realms of help, that heaven thy home, Some...
Seite 47 - This is the same voice : can thy soul know change ? Hail then, and hearken from the realms of help ! Never may I commence my song, my due To God who best taught song by gift of thee, Except with bent head and beseeching hand — That still, despite the distance and the dark, What was, again may be ; some interchange Of grace, some splendour once thy very thought, Some benediction anciently thy smile...
Seite 6 - Do you see this square old yellow Book, I toss I' the air, and catch again, and twirl about By the crumpled vellum covers, — pure crude fact Secreted from man's life when hearts beat hard, And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since?
Seite 47 - O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire, — Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun, Took sanctuary within the holier blue, And sang a kindred soul out to his face, — Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart — When the first summons from the darkling earth Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue, And bared them of the glory — to drop down, To toil for man, to suffer or to die, — This is the same voice : can thy soul know change ? Hail then,...
Seite 28 - And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands ; and he stretched himself upon the child, and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
Seite 6 - O' the proper fiery acid o'er its face, And forth the alloy unfastened flies in fume; While, self-sufficient now, the shape remains, The rondure brave, the lilied loveliness, Gold as it was, is, shall be evermore: Prime nature with an added artistry — No carat lost, and you have gained a ring. What of it ? 'T is a figure, a symbol, say; A thing's sign : now for the thing signified. Do you see this square old yellow Book, I toss I...
Seite 9 - A Roman murder-case : Position of the entire criminal cause Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman, With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay, Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to death By heading or hanging as befitted ranks, At Rome on February Twenty Two, Since our salvation Sixteen Ninety Eight: Wherein it is disputed if, and when, Husbands may kill adulterous wives, yet 'scape The customary forfeit.
Seite 327 - To have to do with nothing but the true, The good, the eternal — and these, not alone In the main current of the general life, But small experiences of every day, Concerns of the particular hearth and home: To learn not only by a comet's rush But a rose's birth, — not by the grandeur, God — But the comfort, Christ.
Seite 19 - To-wit, that fancy has informed, transpierced, Thridded and so thrown fast the facts else free, As right through ring and ring runs the djereed And binds the loose, one bar without a break. I fused my live soul and that inert stuff, Before attempting smithcraft...
Seite 29 - Count Guido Franceschini the Aretine, Descended of an ancient house, though poor, A beak-nosed bushy-bearded black-haired lord, Lean, pallid, low of stature yet robust, Fifty years old, — having four years ago Married Pompilia Comparini, young, Good, beautiful, at Rome, where she was born, And brought her to Arezzo, where they lived Unhappy lives, whatever curse the cause, — This husband, taking four accomplices, Followed this wife to Rome, where she was fled From their Arezzo to find peace again,...