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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Death of Harold ; his poems, written when twelve years old, shown to Miss Flower; the Rev. W.J. Fox's criticisms on them; he comes across Shelley's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dæmon of the World ; Mrs. Browning procures Shelley's poems, also those of Keats, for he... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paracelsus, important one written by John Forster; Browning meets Macready at the house of Mr. Fox; personal description of the poet; Macready's opinion of the poem; Browning spends New Year's Day, 1836, at the house of the tragedian and meets John Forster; Macready urges him to... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Browning's Ancestors"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Subtlest Assertor of the Soul in Song,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ashamed of having been born in the greatest city of the world! he exclaimed on one occasion;"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What of the Scottish Brownings? I had it long ago from one of the name that the Brownings came originally from Ayrshire, and that several families of them emigrated to the North of Ireland during the times of the Covenanters. There is, moreover, a small town or village in the No... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The old gentleman's brain was a storehouse of literary and philosophical antiquities. He was completely versed in mediæval legend, and seemed to have known Paracelsus, Faustus, and even Talmudic personages, personally"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pauline and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paracelsus ;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sordello,"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "soothing the child to sleep by singing to him snatches of Anacreon in the original, to a favourite old tune of his,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Cottage in a Wood. Readers of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Asolando will remember the allusions in tha... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The old trees Which grew by our youth's home--the waving mass Of climbing plants, heavy with bloom and dew-- The morning swallows with their songs like words-- All these seem clear.... ...most distinct amid The fever and the stir of after years."
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God's in His Heaven, All's right with the world!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or, it may be,"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Play! play!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pauline"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Andromeda! And she is with me--years roll, I shall change, But change can touch her not--so beautiful With her dark eyes, earnest and still, and hair Lifted and spread by ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Instans Tyrannus. It has been put on record that his sister remembers him, as a very little boy, walking round and round the dining-room table, and spanning out the scansion of his verses with his hand on the smooth mahogany. He was scarce more than a child when, one Guy Fawkes'... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall never, in the years remaining, Paint you pictures, no, nor carve you statues, Make you music that should all-express me: ... verse alone, one life allows me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Death of Harold as the theme of one. Long afterwards he read these boy... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline : we might have had a different Browning. It contained most of Shelley's writings, all in their first edition, with the exception of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Cenci : in addition, there were three volumes by an even less known poet, John Keats, which... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So as I grew, I rudely shaped my life To my immediate wants, yet strong beneath Was a vague sense of powers folded up-- A sense that though those shadowy times were past, Their spirit dwelt in me, and I should rule."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I attended with him ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Browning himself had nothing of this bourgeois spirit: he was the last man to speak of an inevitable artistic decision as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are no doubt people who estimate his resolve as Mr. Barrett, so his daughter declared, regarded Horne when h... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline,"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sordello,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The one electrifies us with the outer and dominant actualities; the other flashes upon our mental vision the inner, complex, shaping potentialities. The one deals with life dynamically, the other with life as Thought. Both met... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Richmond having been added to the date at the end of the preface to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pauline, have arisen the frequent misstatements as to the Browning family having moved west from Camberwell in or shortly before 1832. Mr. R. Barrett Browning tells me ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline has a unique significance because of its autopsychical hints. The Browning whom we all know, as well as the youthful dreamer, is here revealed; here too, as well as the disciple of Shelley, we have the author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ring and the... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I much fear that my poor friend will not be always perfectly understood in what remains to be read of this strange fragment, but it is less calculated than any other part to explain what of its nature can never be anything but dream and confusion. I do not know, moreover, whethe... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sun-treader, and invokes in strains of lofty emotion--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sun-treader--life and light be thine for ever. The music of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alastor, indeed, is audible ever and again throughout"
},
{
"from": ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline, written though it was in the first flush of his genius and under the inspiring stimulus of Shelley, the reader encounters prosaic passages, decasyllabically arranged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Twas in my plan to look on real life, which was all new to m... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline will remember the passage where the poet, with that pantheistic ecstasy which was possibly inspired by the singer he most loved, tells how he can live the life of plants, content to watch the wild bees flitting to and fro, or to lie absorbent of the ardours of the sun, o... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But morning's laugh sets all the crags alight Above the baffled tempest: tree and tree Stir themselves from the stupor of the night, And every strangled branch resumes its right To breathe, shakes loose dark's clinging dregs, waves free In dripping glory. Prone the runnels plung... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her fresh eyes, and soft hair, and _lips which bleed like a mountain berry_"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sun-treader, I believe in God, and truth, And love; ... ... but chiefly when I die ... All in whom this wakes pleasant thoughts of me, Know my last state is happy--free from doubt, Or touch of fear."
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I had dimly shaped my first attempt, And many a thought did I build up on thought, As the wild bee hangs cell to cell--in vain; For I must still go on: my mind rests not."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pauline"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Paracelsus. Shelley, as far above Browning in poetic music as the author of so many parleyings with other people's souls is the superior in psychic insight and intellectual strength, had throughout his too brief life not one... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It lives, If precious be the soul of man to man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pauline : the very favourable article by Mr. Fox in the _Monthly Repository_, the kindly paper by Allan Cunningham in the _Athenæum_, and, in _Tait's Edinburgh Magazine_, the succinctly e... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline forgot to speak about it: the poet himself never alluded to it: and in a year or two it was almost as though it had never been written. Many years after, when articles upon Robert Browning were as numerous as they once had been scarce, never a word betrayed that their au... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline that Browning began to see something of the literary and artistic life for which he had such an inborn taste. For a brief period he went often to the British Museum, particularly the Library, and to the National Gallery. At the British Museum Reading Room he perused with... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline appeared another small volume, containing the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Palace of Art,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oenone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mariana, etc. Those early books of Tennyson and Browning have frequentl... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thoughts swarming thro' the myriad-chambered brain Like multitudes of bees i' the innumerous cells, Each staggering 'neath the undelivered freight--"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Italy was my University."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ivàn Ivànovitch (the fourth of the _Dramatic Idyls_, 1879). Of a truth, after his own race and country--readers will at once think of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Home Thoughts from the Sea, or t... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Italian in England,"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sordello, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pippa Passes, and whither he returned in the last year of his life, as with unconscious significance he himself said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sordello he had in some fashion begun, but had set aside fo... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pippa Passes, beginning"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A King lived long ago, was one of these; and the lyric,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still ailing, wind? Wilt be appeased or no? afterwards revised and incorporated in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paracelsus, but several scenes in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strafford,"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sordello into prose--a superfluous task, some scoffers may exclaim. Personally, I cannot but think this craze for the exposition of poetry, this passion for"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the forerunner of Mesmer and even of Darwin and Wallace, who began life with the sounding appellation"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus ab Hohenheim,"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ever did believe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Paracelsus"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One old populous green wall Tenanted by the ever-busy flies, Grey crickets and shy lizards and quick spiders, Each family of the silver-threaded moss-- Which, look through near, this way, and it appears A stubble-field or a cane-brake, a marsh Of bulrush whitening in the sun....... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The centre-fire heaves underneath the earth, And the earth changes like a human face; The molten ore bursts up among the rocks, Winds into the stone's heart, outbranches bright In hidden mines, spots barren river-beds, Crumbles into fine sand where sunbeams bask-- God joys there... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hints and previsions of which faculties Are strewn confusedly everywhere about The inferior natures, and all lead up higher, All shape out dimly the superior race, The heir of hopes too fair to turn out false, And man appears at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whose memories were a solace to me oft, As mountain-baths to wild fowls in their flight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ask the gier-eagle why she stoops at once Into the vast and unexplored abyss, What full-grown power informs her from the first, Why she not marvels... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I go to prove my soul! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive! What time, what circuit first, I ask not: but unless God send His hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, His good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shouted, every man of us, And steered right into the harbour thus, With pomp and pæan glorious."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Paracelsus"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud Which breaks to dust when once unrolled; Or shredded perfume, like a cloud From closet long to quiet vowed, With mothed and dropping arras hung, Mouldering her lute and books among, As when a queen, long d... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sunrise Well warranted our faith in this full noon!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Paracelsus with a half contemptuous line or two. On the other hand, the _Examiner_ acknowledged it to be a work of unequivocal power, and predicted for its author a brilliant caree... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paracelsus."
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Read 'Paracelsus,' a work of great daring, starred with poetry of thought, feeling, and diction, but occasionally obscure: the writer can scarcely fail to be a leading spirit of his time."
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strafford,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Pied Piper of Hamelin. It is said to have been an impromptu performance, and to have been so little valued by the author that he hesitated about its inclusion in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bells and Pome... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Othello, and how this had deflected his intention from a modern and European to an Oriental and ancient theme."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Browning said that I had _bit_ him by my performance of 'Othello,' and I told him I hoped I should make the blood come. The"
... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strafford, and probably"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Blot on the 'Scutcheon. Just as the young poet, flushed with the triumphant pleasure of the evening, was about to leave, Macready arrested him by a friendly grip of the arm. In unmistakable earnestness he asked... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bells and Pomegranates ):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two or three years ago I wrote a play, about which the chief matter I much care to recollect at present is, that a pitful of good-natured people applauded it. Ever since, I have been desirous of doing something... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is time to deny a statement that has been repeated _ad nauseam_ in every notice that professes to give an account of Mr. Browning's career. Whatever is said or not said, it is always that his plays have 'failed' on the stage. In point of fact, the three plays which he has bro... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and then, with a contempt that is almost sublime, implores,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stay, sir, do not promise, do not swear!"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Voices from Within --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--in the terrible scene where Strafford learns his doom, is only to be paralleled by the song of Mariana in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Measure for Measure,"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Paracelsus, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strafford, partly because (certainly without more than one exception,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sordello"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Venus and Adonis, and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rape of Lucrece, we have but the dimmest foreview of the author of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hamlet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Othello, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His stage is not the visible phenomenal England (or elsewhere) of history; it is a point in the spiritual universe, where naked souls meet and wrestle, as they play the great game of life, for counters, the true value of which can only be realised in the bullion of a higher life... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blot on the 'Scutchcon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Luria,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a Balcony, is not dramatic in even the most conventional sense. Above all, indeed--as Mr. Walter Pater has said--his is the poetry of situations. In each of ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shakespeare is not our poet but the world's, Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale No man has walked along our roads with step So active, so enquiring eye, or tongue So varied ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Witch of Atlas. But he was the earnest student for the most part, and, above all, the poet. His other pleasure, in his happy vagrant days, was to join company with any tramps, gipsies, or other wayfarers, and in good fellowship gain much knowledge of life that was useful at ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pippa Passes"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "where Pippa, the little silk-winder from the mills at Asolo, springs from bed, on her New Year's Day _festa_, and soliloquises as she dresses, is as true as it is lovely when viewed through the rainbow glow of the poetic atmosphere: but how could it succeed on the stage? It is n... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All service ranks the same with God,"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say not 'a small event!' Why 'small'? Costs it more pain than this, ye call A 'great event,' should come to pass, Than that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's a w... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pippa Passes. Its lyrics have been unsurpassed, for birdlike spontaneity and a rare high music, by any other Victorian poet: its poetic insight is such as no other poet than the author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ring and the Book and"
},
{
"from": ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pippa Passes."
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All service ranks the same with God-- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God's in his heaven-- All's right with the world!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With God there is no lust ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He never forgot the bygone"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he saw in those days of his fervid youth. Browning remarked once that the romance of his life was in his own soul; and on another occasion I heard him smilingly add, to some one's vague assertion that in Italy... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sordello, that of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Its interest may be found remote, its treatment verbose, its intricacies puzzling to those unaccustomed to excursions from the familiar highways of old usage, but its motive thought is not obscure. It is a moonlit plai... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That autumn eve was stilled: A last remains of sunset dimly burned O'er the far forests,--like a torch-flame turned By the wind back upon its bearer's hand In one long flare of crimson; as a brand, The woods beneath lay black."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Few fine ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There were only two lines in it that I understood, and they were both lies; they were the opening and closing lines, '_Who will may hear Sordello's story told_,' and '_Who would has heard Sordello's story told!_' Carlyle was equally candid:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book is unique. Even Goethe's masterpiece had its forerunners, as in Marlowe's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Faustus, and its ambitious offspring, as in Bailey's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Festus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book is, in point of art, nothing. One day, after the publication of this poem, Carlyle hailed the author with enthusiastic praise in which lurked damning irony:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What a wonderful fellow you are, Browning: you have writt... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But poetry is not mental gymnastics. All this insistence upon"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book must depend even less upon its subject, its motive, than upon its being"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ring and the Book and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aurora Leigh are metrical novels. The one is discursive in episodes and... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book,"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The story of the Franceschini case, as Mr. Browning relates it, forms a circle of evidence to its one central truth; and this circle was constructed in the manner in which the worker in Etruscan gold prepares the ornamental circlet which will be worn as a ring. The pure metal is... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beneath I' the street, quick shown by openings of the sky When flame fell silently from cloud to cloud, Richer than that gold snow Jove rained on Rhodes, The townsmen walked by twos and threes, and talked, Drinking the blackness in default of air-- A busy human sense beneath my ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is--interesting! It is mere verse. As verse, even, it is often so involved, so musicless occasionally, so banal now and again, so inartistic in colour as well as in form, that one would, having apprehended its explanatory interest, pass on without regret, were it not for the nob... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "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 dar... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, sirs, I cannot have the lady dead! That erect form, flashing brow, fulgurant eye, That voice immortal (oh, that voice of hers!)-- That vision of the pale electric sword Angels go armed with--that was not the last O' the lady. Come, I see through it, you find, Know the manoeu... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pompilia"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, how good God is that my babe was born, --Better than born, baptised and hid away Before this happened, safe from being hurt! That had been sin God could not well forgive: _He was too young to smile and save himself_----"
... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "are more tiresome and more unnecessary than the most inferior of the three opening sections--the first of the two, indeed, is intolerably wearisome, a desolate boulder-strewn gorge after the sweet air and sunlit summits of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Caponsacchi a... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the main criminal I have no hope Except in such a suddenness of fate. I stood at Naples once, a night so dark I could have scarce conjectured there was earth Anywhere, sky or sea or world at all: But the night's black was burst through by a blaze-- Thunder struck blow on blo... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abate,--Cardinal,--Christ,--Maria,--God, ... Pompilia, will you let them murder me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ring and the Book free of all the manifold and complex considerations which confuse our judgment. Meanwhile, each can only speak for himself. To me ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Inn Album, a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence. This analogy of the tidal ebb and flow may be observed with singular aptness in Browning's... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man's thoughts and loves and hates! Earth is my vineyard, these grew there--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I prefer to look for the highest attainment, not simply the high."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline [16]--i."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men and Women"
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I lived with visions for my company, instead of men and women ... nor thought to know a sweeter music than they played to me."
}
] |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in various"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At this time, she tells us, the Greeks were her demi-gods, and she dreamt much of Agamemnon. In the same year, in suburban Camberwell, a little boy was often wont to listen eagerly to his father's narrative of the same hero, ... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love quivered, an invisible flame. Elizabeth Barrett was indeed, in her own words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She, too, was always, as she wrote of Harriet Martineau, in a hopeless anguish of body and serene triumph of spirit. As George Sand says, of one of her f... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "rose hurriedly and, in reply to her hostess' inquiry as to her motive, explained that she could not sit any longer beside the elderly gentleman who was talking to Mrs. So-and-so, as his near presence made her quiver all over,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as she phr... |
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We, who believe life's bases rest Beyond the probe of chemic test."
}
] |
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