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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...exercised for good or ill. You 've your boot now on my hearth-rug, tread what was a tiger's skin: Rarely such a royal monster as I lodged the bullet in! True, he murdered half a village, so his own death came to pass; Still, for size and beauty, cunning, courage--ah, the brute he was! Why, that Clive, --that youth, that greenhorn, that quill-driving clerk, in fine, --He sustained a siege in Arcot.... But the world knows! Pass the wine. 40 Where did I break off at? How bring Clive in? Oh, you mentioned " fear "! Just so: and, said I, that minds me of a story you shall hear. We were friends then, Clive and I: so, when the clouds, about the orb Late supreme, encroaching slowly, surely, threatened to absorb Ray by ray its noontide brilliance, --friendship might, with steadier eye Drawing near, bear what had burned else, now no blaze--all majesty. Too much bee's-wing floats my figure? Well, suppose a castle's new: None presume to climb its ramparts, none find foothold sure for shoe 'Twixt those squares and squares of granite plating the impervious pile As his scale-mail's warty iron cuirasses a crocodile. 50 Reels that castle thunder-smitten, storm-dismantled? From without Scrambling up by crack and crevice, every cockney prates about Towers--the heap he kicks now! turrets--just the measure of his cane! Will that do? Observe moreover--(same similitude again)--Such a castle seldom crumbles by sheer stress of cannonade: 'T is when foes are foiled and fighting's finished that vile rains invade, Grass o'ergrows, o'ergrows till night-birds congregating find no holes Fit to build in like the topmost sockets made for bannerpoles. So Clive crumbled slow in London--crashed at last. A week before, Dining with him, --after trying churchyard-chat of days of yore, --60 ...Hide synopsis
The Complete Works of Robert Browning (Rarebooksclub.com) – Trade paperback (2012)
by
Robert Browning
Trade paperback, Rarebooksclub.com 2012
English
186 pages
ISBN: 1130397440 ISBN-13: 9781130397444
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...assent, say I? Rather to rapture of thanksgiving; since That which seems worst to man to God is best, So, because God ordains it, best to man. Yet man--the foolish, weak, and wicked--prays! Urges 'My best were better, didst Thou know ' 1" "List to a tale. A worthy householder Of Shiraz had three sons, beside a spouse ...Show moreThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...assent, say I? Rather to rapture of thanksgiving; since That which seems worst to man to God is best, So, because God ordains it, best to man. Yet man--the foolish, weak, and wicked--prays! Urges 'My best were better, didst Thou know ' 1" "List to a tale. A worthy householder Of Shiraz had three sons, beside a spouse Whom, cutting gourds, a serpent bit, whereon The offended limb swelled black from foot to fork. The husband called in aid a leech renowned World-wide, confessed the lord of surgery, And bade him dictate--who forthwith declared 4 Sole remedy is amputation.' Straight The husband sighed 'Thou knowest: be it so!' His three sons heard their mother sentenced: 'Pause! Outbroke the elder: 'Be precipitate Nowise, I pray thee! Take some gentler way, Thou sage of much resource! I will not doubt But science still may save foot, leg, and thigh!' The next in age snapped petulant: 'Too rash! No reason for this maiming! What, Sir Leech, Our parent limps henceforward while we leap? Shame on thee! Save the limb thou must and shalt!' 'Shame on yourselves, ye bold ones!' followed up The brisk third brother, youngest, pertest too: 'The leech knows all things, we are ignorant; What he proposes, gratefully accept! For me, had I some unguent bound to heal Hurts in a twinkling, hardly would I dare Essay its virtue and so cross the sage By cure his skill pronounces folly. Quick! No waiting longer! There the patient lies: Out then with implements and operate!'" ' Ah, the young devil!" "Why, his reason chimed Right with the Hakim's." "Hakim's, ay--but chit's? How? what the skilled eye saw and judged of weight To overbear a heavy consequence, That--shall a sciolist affect to see? All he saw--that is, all such oaf should see, Was just the ...Hide
Description:BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.69 by 7 inches. This book is printed on...BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.69 by 7 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00186 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback )
