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Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
A Death in the Desert (1864)
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
A Death in the Desert (1864)
“Sky—what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
Splendid, a star!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
The two Poets of Croisic.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
A Death in the Desert (1864)
“That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”
Robert Browning By the Fireside
By the Fireside, xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”
Cleon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Sometimes ascribed to Robert Browning, this is in fact a misquotation from Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): "They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top".
Misattributed
“Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
La Saisiaz.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Look not thou down but up!
To uses of a cup.”
Robert Browning Rabbi ben Ezra
Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 175.
“You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.”
"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 224.
Men and Women (1855)
“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
"Saul", xviii.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
The Flight of the Duchess, xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
"The Last Ride Together", line 67 (1859).