Elizabeth Barrett Browning Zitate und Sprüche
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Zitate auf Englisch
No. XXII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
“But so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware.”
Bianca Among the Nightingales http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3035&poem=127031, st. 12 (1862).
“Guess now who holds thee?"—"Death," I said. But there
The silver answer rang—"Not Death, but Love.”
No. I
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Lady Geraldine's Courtship http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ebbrowning/bl-ebbrown-togeorge1.htm, st. 41 (1844).
“Every wish
Is like a prayer—with God.”
Book II.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
Little Mattie, Stanza ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Rhyme of the Duchess; reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 514.
Book V.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
The Cry of the Children http://www.webterrace.com/browning/The%20Cry%20Of%20The%20Children.htm, st. 1 (1844).
St. 3 - 4.
De Profundis (1862)
“Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.”
To George Sand, A Desire http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ebbrowning/bl-ebbrown-togeorge1.htm (1844).
“The beautiful seems right
By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.”
Book II.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”
Grief http://www.webterrace.com/browning/Grief.htm, l. 1 (1844).
“But since he had
The genuis to be loved, why let him have
The justice to be honoured in his grave.”
Crowned and Buried, xxvii reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Lady's Yes http://www.webterrace.com/browning/The%20Ladys%20Yes.htm, st. 1 (1844).
Bk. V, l. 200-207.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
Bianca Among the Nightingales http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3035&poem=127031, st. 1 (1862).
Book IV.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
“God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”
No. XXIV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Bk. IV, l. 1139-1141.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
“Dreams of doing good
For good-for-nothing people.”
Book II.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
To Flush, My Dog http://www.webterrace.com/browning/To%20Flush%20My%20Dog.htm, st. 14 (1844).
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 247.
Bk. II, l. 952-954.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
