 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, hut a star.  Selections from [his] Poetical Works - Page 244by Robert Browning - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - After-dinner speeches - 1903 - 490 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...behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are ! " The instrument upon which the orator plays is, in its highest perfection, the most wonderful mechanism... | |
 | Robert Naylor Whiteford - English poetry - 1903 - 464 pages
...Saul. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? — Andrea del Sarto. But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can. . . . — Abt Vogler. On the earth the broken arcs ; in the heaven a perfect round. — Abt Vogler.... | |
 | Composers - 1904 - 302 pages
...that is saying much—as Newman's prose:— " Painter and Poet are proud in the artist-list enrolled; But here is the finger of God, a flash of the Will...allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame a fourth, not a sound, but a star, 1 Consider it well; each tone of our scale in itself is nought;... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...Painter and poet are proud in the artist-list enrolled : — But here is the finger of God, a Bush slow that ship will go, When the Mariner's trance is abated.' 1 1 woke, and we wer lie frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well : each tone of our scale in itself is naught... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1904 - 154 pages
...angels' law, " Indulging every instinct of the soul " There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing ! the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent...behind all laws, that made them, and lo, ~* they are ! " 631-3. The word law here seems to be used in two different senses (Lat. norma, Gr. nomos) ; " the... | |
 | William Deas Kerswill - Bible - 1904 - 232 pages
...scientist seldom goes back beyond these " secondary causes " though he knows that behind them is " A flash of the Will that can ; Existent behind all laws — that made them, And lo they are ! " On the other hand, the Jews, in common with ancient peoples, who knew little about the working... | |
 | Edward Carpenter - Consciousness - 1904 - 276 pages
...the discrimination or sensation would not be. Every one has experienced the magic of the musician, " that out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star." The three first notes are mere sounds, noises; but with the fourth, the phrase, the melody, the meaning,... | |
 | Edward Carpenter - Consciousness - 1904 - 276 pages
...the discrimination or sensation would not be. Every one has experienced the magic of the musician, " that out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star." The three first notes are mere sounds, noises ; but with the fourth, the phrase, the melody, the meaning,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 pages
...triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws, Painter and poet are proud, in the artist-list enroll'd: — But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will...are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allow'd to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Well, it is gone... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - Fiction - 1905 - 356 pages
...most 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...sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star." VII. 4. JOY IN SOUL. No saying of Browning's is more familiar than that in which he declared "incidents... | |
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