The book The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, volume 3 was written by author Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 Here you can read free online of The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, volume 3 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, volume 3 a good or bad book?
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" What matter though my trust were gone " From natural things ? Henceforth my part " Be less with nature than with art ! " For art supplants, gives mainly worth ** To nature \ \ is man stamps the earth — " And I will seek his impress, seek " The statuary of the Greek, " Italy's painting — there my choice "Shall fix!" Digitized by VjOOQ iC CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY 297 XXVI. " Obtain it ! " said the voice, •* — ^The one form with its single act, " Which sculptors laboured to abstract, " The o...ne face, painters tried to draw, " With its one look, from throngs they saw. " And that perfection in their soul, " These only hinted at ? The whole, " They were but parts of ? What each laid " His claim to glory on ? — afraid " His fellow-men should give him rank " By mere tentatives which he shrank " Smitten at heart from, all the more, " That gazers pressed in to adore ! " * Shall I be judged by only these ? * " If such his soul's capacities, " Even while he trod the earth, — think, now.
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