 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, but a  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1721876Full view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - Poetry - 1909 - 950 pages
...obedience to 1aws¿ iinter and poet are proud in the artist-list enroUed:— 553 82 VII. But here I. the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, Jo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds... | |
 | University of Michigan. School of Education - Education - 1942 - 386 pages
...religion. Are not all forms of art capable of making one sentient to, and atune to such intimations? But here Is the finger of God, a flash of the will...of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well; each tone of our scale in itself is naught: It is every where in the world... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 332 pages
...marvellous of human powers we may gather from the famous lines of Abt Vogler already quoted: — " And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed...of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star." 1 Sordello (Works, i. 123). ' Fijine, xlii. 3 Transcendentalism. VII 4. JOY IN SOUL No saying... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - Personalism - 1920 - 504 pages
...gifted musician creates a melody that is to last forever, he resorts to the symbolism of the "star": "And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed...of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound but a star." And to close with Shakespeare's wonderful sonnet, treating of ideal love, which finally makes... | |
 | Ralph Tyler Flewelling - Personalism - 1920 - 530 pages
...gifted musician creates a melody that is to last forever, he resorts to the symbolism of the "star" : "And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed...of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound but a star." And to close with Shakespeare's wonderful sonnet, treating of ideal love, which finally makes... | |
 | American essays - 1908 - 940 pages
...forgotten death. This creative power seemed to Browning to be the artist's highest prerogative : — But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can. This masters death in moribund or extinct relics of life, and Browning likens it to the miraculous... | |
 | 1913 - 626 pages
...Browning with his wonderful penetration into all things transcendental is the spokesman of the muse: "But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will...they are; And I know not if, save in this, such gift is allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frames, not a fourth sound, but a star." II university... | |
 | North American review - 1917 - 1008 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...of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. . . . Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme... | |
 | Robert Browning - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 718 pages
...sane Lured now to begin and bye, in ahouse God: ay, what was, shall be. Vu Buthere is the fingerofOod, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, in, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds... | |
 | Kevin Kelly - Technology & Engineering - 1996 - 580 pages
...prosegue citando in verso di mna pocsia di Browning che conferma come ha musica cmcrga dagli accordi. And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed...out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, bit a star. (E io non so sc, eccetto in questo, in simile dono è concesso ali'momo. Che da ire suoni... | |
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