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" To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, Is fatal, — foolish too. "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 278
edited by - 1862
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 81

Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...aspires, And spends more passion, moro heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms. Than Koland with his knights, at Roncesvalles. To flinch from...foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commonplace to Lady Guenevcr ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still,...
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Aurora Leigh. Author's ed

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 pages
...this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,...Guenever; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat, As Regent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of...
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Aurora Leigh

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Epic poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Eoland with his knights, at Eoncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry...Guenever; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat, • As Eegent Street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava of...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 81

Scotland - 1857 - 804 pages
...heroic boat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Boland with his knights, at Boncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or 'flounce Cry...picturesque, Is fatal,— foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commouplace to Lady Guencvcr ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Bogent Street to poets. Never...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 36

1857 - 802 pages
...this love-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 Roneasvalles." There are many lines of concentrated force, many of quiet beauty, in the poem, but not...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 36

Commerce - 1857 - 802 pages
...this love-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 Roncasvalles." There are many lines of concentrated force, many of quiet beauty, in the poem, but not...
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Aurora Leigh

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1857 - 404 pages
...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 Koncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumes 80-81

England - 1857 - 820 pages
...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 Eoncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce Cry out for togas and the picturesque,...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 6; Volume 27

1858 - 572 pages
...this live, throbbing age Which 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, Louis Napoleon among his docks and ships and guns at Cherbourg, has seen England and America united...
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Poems, Volume 3

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 422 pages
...aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Eoland with his knights, at Roncesvalles. To flinch from...Guenever ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat, As Begerit street to poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon a burning lava of...
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