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Robert Browning (1812-1889 / London / England)
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The son of Robert Browning, a Bank of England clerk, and Sarah Anna Wiedemann, of Scottish-German descent, Browning received little formal education. .. more >>
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  ''Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Death in the Desert, l. 586-8, Dramatis Personae (1864).
 
  ''Inscribe all human effort with one word,
Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 11, l. 1560 (1868-1869).
 
  ''Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Death in the Desert, l. 59 (1864).
 
  ''O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire.''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 1, l. 1391-2 (1868-1869).
 
  ''Let us try.
To-morrow, how you shall be glad for this!''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto (l. 19-20). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode...
 
  ''Everyone soon or late comes round by Rome.''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 5, l. 296 (1868-1869).
 
  ''You called me, and I came home to your heart.''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto (l. 171). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode a...
 
  ''Faultless to a fault.''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 9, l. 1177 (1868-1869).
 
  ''Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto, l. 97-8, Men and Women, vol. 2 (1855).
 
  ''There's a new tribunal now
Higher than God's—the educated man's!''
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 10, l. 1976-7 (1868-1869).
 

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