 But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, hut a star.  Selections from [his] Poetical Works - Page 244by Robert Browning - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1912 - 666 pages
...sense-perceptions, he has found for us the classical expression : — I know not if, save in this, such power be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Xor, surely, will time ever abrogate anything of the value to the world of those love poems which were... | |
 | Metta Victoria Fuller Victor - Women authors - 1876 - 426 pages
...improvise like a master. I was thinking of Browning's beautiful lines, put into the mouth of Abt Vogler : " 'But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will...behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are 1 And I know not if, save in this, such a gift be allowed to man. That out of three sounds he frame,... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...noticed this element of miracle, which coincides exactly with Browning's view expressed in the linos : " Here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...behind all laws, that made them, and, lo, they are ! " Now, these seven verses contain the music of the poem ; ir» the remaining ones we pass on to Browning's... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1885 - 466 pages
...triumphant art, hut art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud, in the artist list enrolled." "But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that ear., Existent behind all laws : that made them, and lo, they arc t And I know not if, save in this,... | |
 | Robert Browning, Hiram Corson - 1886 - 408 pages
...this element of miracle, which coincides exactly with Browning's view expressed in the lines : — " ' Here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...behind all laws, that made them, and, lo, they are ! ' Now, these seven verses contain the music of the poem ; in the remaining ones we pass to Browning's... | |
 | Robert Browning - English poetry - 1887 - 474 pages
...when a kindlier wind should blow, Lured now to begin and live, in a house to their liking at last; Or else the wonderful Dead who have passed through...out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, hut a star. Consider it well: each tone of our scale in itself is nought; It is everywhere in the world... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 64 pages
...triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud, in the artist -list enrolled : — But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, 49 Existent behind all laws : that made them, and, lo, they are ! 84. Protoplast — " The original... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 218 pages
...extraction, troubled in spirit because of her non-comprehension of the " star " simile in the line — "That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound but a star" — an artist, and a musician. " But why did he s.iy a star I " persisted the lady, turning to mo.... | |
 | Alexander Mair - Apologetics - 1889 - 432 pages
...of power, or sets it free to flow from the invisible into the visible sphere, leading men to say, ' Here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can ' ? But perhaps, after all, it is more modest and safe to say that we cannot tell how the end is accomplished... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pages
...triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud in the artist list enrolled ; — But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will...lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such a gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Consider... | |
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