 There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.  Papers - Page 405de Browning Society (London, England) - 1881Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1897 - 858 pages
...sublimity of faith so characteristic of him, has affirmed Emerson's idea of compensation, in these lines: "On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round." Now if that, as we hope, be true, it is pleasant to believe that Schumann is at last enjoying the compensation... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1893 - 208 pages
...fill the heart that thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good ! what was, shall live as before ; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying...the broken arcs ; in the heaven, a perfect round. X. All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; N ot its semblance, but itself ; no... | |
 | Essex Hall Pulpit - 1893 - 168 pages
...fill the heart that Thy power expands ? There shall never be one lost good ! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying...the broken arcs ; in the heaven, a perfect round.' HYMN, ALL before us lies the way ; Give the past unto the wind : All before us is the day ; Night and... | |
 | 1893 - 736 pages
...fill the heart that Thy power expands ? There shall never be one lost good ; what was shall live as before ; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying...the broken arcs ; in the Heaven, a perfect round.' There is serenity, harmony, vigour, in each of these ; but in each the poet's own generally characteristic... | |
 | John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 384 pages
...There shall never be one lost good ! What was shall live as before ; The evil is null — is naught — is silence implying sound ; What was good shall be...earth the broken arcs, in the heaven a perfect round. Doubts may be resolved for a while, but they will recur. To thinking minds this is inevitable. Tennyson... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1981 - 308 pages
..."perfect the earthen," to provide the completeness that imperfection augured: The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be...earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. By his own brand of Christian Platonism, Browning thus postulated a solution to the problem of evil... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 182 pages
...destruction: There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be...earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. Human imperfection implies the ideal perfection somewhere in the scheme of things, just as the arc,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1994 - 718 pages
...shall never be one lost good! Whar was, sha1l live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is sQence implying sound: What was good shall be good, with,...for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken ana; in the heaven, a perfect round. /ill we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pages
...incompleteness and imperfection only imply an immortal completeness and perfection beyond this life: "On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round" ("Abt Vbgler"). Modern readers, however, far from looking to Browning for an "idea of the world," are... | |
 | C. W. Leadbeater - 1996 - 120 pages
...As Browning has grandly phrased it — There shall never be one lost good 1 What was, shall live as before ; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying...earth the broken arcs : in the heaven a perfect round. All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; Not in its semblance, but itself : no... | |
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