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Results tagged with elizabeth-barrett-browning
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For questions about the life and works of the Victorian-era English poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861).
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Meaning of "and beauty keeps itself still uppermost" (Aurora Leigh by Liz Browning)
From Aurora Leigh:
Until at last, as one, whose heart being sad
On hearing lovely music, suddenly
Dissolves in weeping, I brake out in tears
Before her . . asked her counsel . . 'had I erre …
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Meaning of "gambled" in "whose wasted right hand gambled against his left" (Aurora Leigh)
From Aurora Leigh - what is the meaning of gambled here? It's hard to understand. I first thought his wasted right hand was somehow pinned to his left one using the brass button, but the dictionaries …
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Meaning of "you wear your blue so chiefly in your eyes ... it comforts me entirely for your ...
From Aurora Leigh:
She said her name quite simply, as if it meant
Not much indeed, but something,–took my hands,
And smiled, as if her smile could help my case,
And dropped her eyes on me …
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Meaning of "I own myself incredulous of confidence like this availing him or you"
From Aurora Leigh:
'- That is said
Austerely, like a youthful prophetess,
Who knits her brows across her pretty eyes
To keep them back from following the grey flight
Of doves between the …
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Meaning of "to risk, in turn, a woman's paradox"
From Aurora Leigh:
To have our books
Appraised by love, associated with love,
While we sit loveless! is it hard, you think?
At least 'tis mournful. Fame, indeed, 'twas said,
Means simply l …
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Meaning of "that all the towns make offal of their daughters for its use on summer-nights"
From Aurora Leigh:
Thus is Art
Self-magnified in magnifying a truth
Which, fully recognized, would change the world
And shift its morals. If a man could feel,
Not one day, in the artist's …
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Meaning of "who bespoke our place so far in the east"
From Aurora Leigh:
So it is:
We covet for the soul, the body's part,
To die and rot. Even so, Aurora, ends
Our aspiration, who bespoke our place
So far in the east.
What is the meanin …
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Meaning of "not conclude at yours"
From Aurora Leigh:
Have you learnt
No more of women, 'spite of privilege,
Than still to take account too seriously
Of such weak flutterings? Why, we like it, sir,–
We get our powers and o …
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Meaning of "He says it still of truth, which is his own" (in "Aurora Leigh")
From Aurora Leigh:
The book has some truth in it, I believe:
And truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
I know we talk our Phædons to the end
Through all the dismal faces that we make,
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Meaning of "I shut my tongue against my fly"
From Aurora Leigh:
Poor child! I would have mended it with gold,
Until it gleamed like St. Sophia's dome
When all the faithful troop to morning prayer:
But he, he nipped the bud of such a th …
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What is "vulgar white of personal aims"? Why is it "white"?
From Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
'I have not stood long on the strand of life,
And these salt waters have had scarcely time
To creep so high up as to wet my feet.
I cannot ju …
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