Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 11

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• The plague of gold strikes far and near.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gold, Strikes, Plague

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.273

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• The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Stars, Prayer

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.52

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• Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Boys, Men, Opinion

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1063, Delphi Classics

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• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Beautiful, Memorable

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.25

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• A great acacia, with its slender trunk
  And overpoise of multitudinous leaves.
  (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
  And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
  Stood reconciling all the place with green.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dew, Green, Might

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.426

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• Books succeed; and lives fail.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Succeed

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.450

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• And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems”, p.146, Broadview Press

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