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p. 141

And health for each of you, not more—at

length

Grown wise, who asked at home that the whole race

Might add the spirit's to the body's grace, And all be dizened out as chiefs and bards.

But in this magic weather one discards Much old requirement. Venice seems a type

p. 349-50

p. 101 Or keep me to the unchoked canals alone, As hinder Life the evil with the good Which make up Living, rightly understood.

Only, do finish something! Peasants, queens,

Take them, made happy by whatever

means,

P. 353

p. 1041 A hungry sun above us, sands that bung p. 358

P. 109
In unexpanded infancy, unless . . .
But that's the story,—dull enough, con-
fess!

There might be fitter subjects to allure;
Still, neither misconceive my portraiture

BOOK IV.

p. 370

p. 120

What booted scattered brilliances? the What booted scattered units? here a

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The great ado
P. 146

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p. 122 why the jar

p. 125

A drear vast presence-chamber roughly

set

In order for this morning's use; you met

These spokesmen for the Kaiser and the
Pope

This incarnation of the People's hope,
Sordello, all the say of each was said
And Salinguerra sat, himself instead
Of these to talk with, lingered musing yet.
'Twas a drear vast presence-chamber
roughly set

In order for the morning's use; full face

1 On p. 106 is a misprint in a ryme: 'She shut[s]

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They would emerge, a river to the end, Gathered themselves up, paused, bade fate befriend,

Took the leap, hung a minute at the height,

Then fell back to oblivion infinite:
Therefore he smiled.

p. 378 p. 129 Straight a meeting of old men : "Old Salinguerra+ dead, his heir a boy, "What if we change our ruler and decoy The Lombard eagle of the azure sphere, With Italy to build in, fix him here Settle the city's troubles in a trice? For private wrong, let public good suffice!"

P. 379

p. 130 When the Podestà Ecelin, at Vicenza, called his friend Tourello thither, what could be their end But to restore the Ghibellins' late Head, The Kaiser helping? He with most to dread

From vengeance and reprisal, Azzo, there

With Boniface beforehand, as aware p. 380

p. 131 which shrunk As the other prospered-mortised in his trunk;

Like a dwarf palm which wanton Arabs foil

Of bearing its own proper wine and oil, By grafting into it the stranger-vine, Which sucks its heart out, sly and serpentine

p. 381 p. 132 "Only, why is it Salinguerra screens Himself behind Romano?-him we bade Enjoy our shine i' the front, nor seek the shade!"

-Asked Heinrich, somewhat of the tardiest

To comprehend.

p. 382

p. 133

In contracts with him, while, since Arab

lore

Holds the stars' secret-take one trouble

more

And master it! 'Tis done, and now deter p. 383 P. 134 now cringe for peace, sue peace

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p. 173-4

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By many a relic of the archetype

Extant for wonder; every upstart church That hoped to leave old temples in the lurch

BOOK V (collated by the Rev. T. W. Carson).

He that sprawls

p. 398

He that sprawls

On aught but a stibadium suffers. . . On aught but a stibadium ... what his

goose,

Puttest our lustral vase to such an use? p. 175

And Rome's accomplished! Better (say you) merge

At once all workmen in the demiurge,
All epochs in a life-time, and all tasks
In one undoubtedly the city basks
P. 176
Sordello, wake!

Where is the Vanity? p. 177-8

An elder poet's in the younger's placeTake Nina's strength-but lose Alcama's grace?

Each neutralizes each then! gaze your

fill; Search further, and the past presents you still

New Ninas, new Alcamas, time's midnight Concluding,-better say its evenlight

terday. You, now, in this respect

dues

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O' the plant-produced by joy and sorrow, whence

Unfeeling and yet feeling, strongest Unfeeling and yet feeling, strongest thence :

p. 183

Rather than doing these: now-fancy's trade

[Is ended, mind, nor one half may evade] p. 191

thence?

p. 406

Rather than doing these, in days gone by. But all is changed the moment you descry Mankind as half yourself,-then fancy's trade [&c.]

p. 414

And round those three the People formed And round those three the people formed a ring,

a ring,

Of visionary judges whose award

He recognized in full-faces that barred Henceforth return to the old careless life, In whose great presence, therefore, his first strife

For their sake must not be ignobly fought, All these at once approved of him, he thought,

Suspended their own vengeance, chose Suspended their own vengeance, chose await

P. 194

await

p. 416

Now, whether he came near or kept aloof, Now whether he came near or kept aloof

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The several forms he longed to imitate, Not there the kingship lay, he sees too late, Those forms, unalterable first as last, Proved him her copier, not the protoplast.

p. 418

Will dawns above us! All then is to win

Save that! How much for me, then? Where begin

My work?

P. 418

Which sinner is, which saint, if I allot Hell, Purgatory, Heaven, a blaze or blot p. 422

Say there's a prize in prospect, must disgrace

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1 In p. 246, as occasionally elsewhere, Browning treats the inflectional s as

nothing in his rymes:

The life-cord prompt enough whose last fine threads
You fritter: so, presiding his board-head. ...

p. 251 A tree that covets fruitage and yet tastes
Never itself, itself-had he embraced. .

They are not changed in the Works of 1863, p 459, p. 463, or in the Works of 1868, p. 211, p. 215.

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