 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1903 - 704 oldal
...Their age, not Charlemagne's, — this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms. Than Roland with his knights at valles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque. Is fatal,... | |
 | Kathleen Elizabeth Royds Innes - 1912 - 150 oldal
...this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,...minstrels seemed as flat As Fleet Street to our poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song The full-veined,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 oldal
...this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,...minstrels seemed as flat As Fleet Street to our poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epie, catch Upon the burning lava of a song The full-veined,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1916 - 692 oldal
...this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires. And spends more passion, more heroic heat. Betwixt the mirrors of its drawingrooms,...or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, Isfatal, — foolishtoo. King Arthur's self Was commonplace to Lady Guenever ; And Camelot to minstrels... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1920 - 686 oldal
...Roncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, fs fatal, — foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commonplace...minstrels seemed as flat As Fleet Street to our poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of a song The full- veined,... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1981 - 308 oldal
...this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires. And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles. Yet there were, even in the insistence upon a passionate modernity, elements in Aurora Leigh quite... | |
 | Beverly Taylor, Elisabeth Brewer - 1983 - 394 oldal
...heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing rooms, Than Roland with his knights at Roncesvalles . . . King Arthur's self Was commonplace to Lady Guenever,...minstrels seemed as flat As Fleet Street to our poets. (Book V, 11. 151-222) Similarly, Robert Browning's 'Tray' (1879) disparaged modem celebrations of knights... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 oldal
...modern age. For Barrett Browning, however, the current "age of mere transition" "spends more passion, more heroic heat, / Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, / Than Roland with his knights at Roncesvalles." The present state of civilization was, in short, an opportunity not an obstacle for the poet, and especially... | |
 | Edward Donald Kennedy - 1996 - 372 oldal
...Book 5 of her blank-verse novel: Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry...foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commonplace to Lady Guenevere: And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Fleet Street to our poets. (200-13) That Tennyson... | |
 | Virginia Woolf - 1986 - 340 oldal
...Charlemagne's. More passion takes place in drawing-rooms than at Roncesvalles with Roland and his knights. 'To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry...for togas and the picturesque, Is fatal - foolish too."8 For living art presents and records real life, and the only life we can truly know is our own.... | |
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To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, Is fatal, — foolish too. 
