Quotes from work
By the Fireside


Robert Browning photo

“That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”

By the Fireside, xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Robert Browning photo

“O woman-country! wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.”

By the Fireside, vi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Robert Browning photo

“If two lives join, there is oft a scar.
They are one and one, with a shadowy third;
One near one is too far.”

By the Fireside, xlvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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