 And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end,...  Dramatis personæ [poems]. Author's ed - Pàgina 162per Robert Browning - 1864Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1890 - 584 pàgines
...No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a moment pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold....the worst turns" the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the element's rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
 | John Trivett Nettleship - 1890 - 478 pàgines
...Prospice, the concluding lines : — ' For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that...shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again, And... | |
 | 1909 - 632 pàgines
...can be put upon the concluding words of " Prospice." After the sharp pang of death, the speaker says: "And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave,...shall blend, Shall change, shall become first, a peace out of pain. Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again. And with... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1890 - 294 pàgines
...worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end : And the elements rage, the fiend voices that rave Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy, Then a light—then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!"... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pàgines
...worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall" change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a joy, then a light, then thy breast, 0 thou soul of my soul ! 1 shall clasp thee... | |
 | 1890 - 492 pàgines
...not a bolder departure from use and wont for him f Why dwell on, why extend the " black minute ? " " For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minutes at end ; And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
 | John Trivett Nettleship - 1890 - 490 pàgines
...belief. Shelley may be almost said to take his place. Now hear Prospice, the concluding lines : — ' For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave. Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
 | Mrs. Sutherland Orr - 1891 - 446 pàgines
...the sentiment which it parodies is identical with that expressed in these words of Prospice, — ... in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. as thou pratest, 't is plain that they have willed on the very outset to inculcate this truth on the... | |
 | Mrs. Sutherland Orr - 1891 - 352 pàgines
...the sentiment which it parodies is identical with that expressed in these words of Prospice, — ... in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. as thou pratest, 't is plain that they have willed on the very outset to inculcate this truth on the... | |
 | 1891 - 728 pàgines
...the idea of Death — ' I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last ! . . . . For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements rage, the fiend-voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall... | |
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