| Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 ˹éÒ
...dates — yellowed over With gold dust divine, And the locust's flesh steeped in the pitcher The full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river...heart and the soul and the senses For ever in joy ! Hast thou loved the white locks of thy father Whose sword thou didst guard When he trusted thee forth... | |
| 1892 - 688 ˹éÒ
...quoted in ' N. & Q.,' 8rt 8. viii. 646. JONATHAN BOVOHIKR. How good is man's life here, mere living I How fit to employ The heart and the soul, and the senses For ever in joy 1 PD When to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope and now are past, Mozambic oft at sea north-east... | |
| 1851 - 534 ˹éÒ
...dates—yellow'd over With gold-dust divine, And the locust's-flesh steep'd in the pitcher, The full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river...soul, and the senses, For ever in joy!" '—Browning, vol. ii. p. 405. Though ' Pippa Passes' is styled a drama, it is so much more really a poem with some... | |
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 ˹éÒ
...pitcher ; the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bullrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses, forever in joy! Hast... | |
| 1856 - 506 ˹éÒ
...him of " the wild joys of living :" " How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy !" Then he turns away from this merely animal life, and sings of the human objects of existence —... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 ˹éÒ
...pitcher ! the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses, for ever in joy I Hast... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 ˹éÒ
...dates — yellowed over With gold dust divine, And the locust's flesh steeped in the pitcher, The full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river...fit to employ The heart and the soul and the senses Forever in joy ! Hast thou loved the white locks of thy father Whose sword thou didst guard When he... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 ˹éÒ
...showing the lion is couched in his lair. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses, for ever in joy ! If life, 'mere living,' be indeed such a lovely thing, where is the good of experimenting upon it?... | |
| 1866 - 522 ˹éÒ
...dates yellow'd over with gold-dust divine, And the locust's flesh steep'd in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was woiit to go warbling so softly and well. The memories even of a single... | |
| william harrison ainsworth - 1866 - 516 ˹éÒ
...dates yellow' d over \rith gold-dust divine, And the locust's flesh steep'd in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river channel, where bulrushes tell That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well. The memories even of a single... | |
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