Selected Poems of Robert Browning - Brossura

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...men! at a word--Praise them, it boils, or blame them, it boils too. I, painting from myself and to myself, 90 Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either. Somebody remarks Morello's outline there is wrongly traced, His hue mistaken; what of that? or else, Rightly traced and well ordered; what of that? 95 Speak as they please, what does the mountain care? Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, 82. Low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand.--" Andrpa del Sarto's was, after all, but the 4 low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand.' and therefore his perfect art does not touch our hearts like that of Fra Bartolomnieo, who occupies about the same positiou with regard to the great masters of the century as Andrea del Sarto. Fra Bartolomnieo spoke from his heart. Ife was moved by the spirit, so to speak, to express his pure and holy thoughts in beautiful language, and the ideal that presented itself to his mind, and from which he, equally with Raphael, worked, approached almost as closely as Raphael's to that abstract beauty after which they both longed. Andrea, del Sarto had no such longing: he was content with'the loveliness of earth. This he could understand and imitate in its fullest perfection, and therefore he troubled himself but little about the 4 wondrous paterne ' laid up in heaven. Many of bis Madonnas have greater beauty, strictly speaking, than those of Bartolommeo. or even of Raphael: but we miss in them that mysterious spiritual loveliness that gives the latter their chief charm."--HeatoiVs Iiisio7/ of Painting. 93. Morello.--The highest ppur of the Apennines to the north of Florence. 96. What does the mountain care?--Itis beyond their criticism. 97. A man's reach should exceed his grasp.--44...