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 star. Shakespeare in Music: A Collation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the ... - Page 92by Louis Charles Elson - 1900 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1912 - 666 pages
...sense-perceptions, he has found for us the classical expression : — I know not if, save in this, such power be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Xor, surely, will time ever abrogate anything of the value to the world of those love poems which were... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 300 pages
...art, but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud in the artist-list enrolled : — 7. But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well : each tone of our scale in itself is naught ; It is everywhere in the world, — loud, soft, and all is said... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 266 pages
...art, but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud in the artist-list enrolled:— 7. But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...a fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well: each tone of our scale in itself is nought; It is everywhere in the world—loud, soft, and all is Give... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 pages
...art, but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud in the artist-list enrolled:— 7. But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well : each tone of our scale in itself is naught ; It is everywhere in the world, — loud, soft, and all is said... | |
| Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1873 - 262 pages
...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 that...fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well : each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world — loud, soft, and all is said... | |
| Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud, in the artist-list enrolled : — VII. But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well : each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world — loud, soft, and all is said... | |
| Songs - 1874 - 252 pages
...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 that...fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well : each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world — loud, soft, and all is said... | |
| 1876 - 606 pages
...effect proceeds from cause ' : — ' Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told ; But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well ; each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world — loud, soft, and all is said... | |
| Metta Victoria Fuller Victor - 1876 - 426 pages
...like a master. I was thinking of Browning's beautiful lines, put into the mouth of Abt Vogler : " 'But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are 1 And I know not if, save in this, such a gift be allowed to man. That out of three sounds he frame,... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...noticed this element of miracle, which coincides exactly with Browning's view expressed in the linos : " Here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...behind all laws, that made them, and, lo, they are ! " Now, these seven verses contain the music of the poem ; ir» the remaining ones we pass on to Browning's... | |
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