 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.  The Arena - Page 3611906Full view - About this book
 | 1892 - 732 pages
...act.' ' I shall never — I shall never forget it either.' (To be continued!) THE RING AND THE BOOK.' ' There shall never be one lost good : what was shall...evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound.' IT would be an interesting subject for enquiry, what proportion of the British public is prepared to... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1892 - 392 pages
...from Thee, who art ever the same ? Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power expands ? There shall never be one lost good ! What was, shall...evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound ; On the earth, the broken arcs ; in the heaven, a perfect round. CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SPIRIT OF BROWNING'S... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 182 pages
...evoked? The Platonic theory of archetypes, indeed, seems the unavoidable answer to art's 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 good, with, for evil, so much good more;... | |
 | 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
...eternal justice demands. As Browning has grandly phrased it — There shall never be one lost good 1 What was, shall live as before ; The evil is null,...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... | |
 | John Firman, Ann Gila - 1997 - 300 pages
...study of the primal wound of nonbeing, and the primal splitting of the human spirit. 5 The Primal Wound On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round. — Robert Browning Having explored the genesis, nature, and development of human being, we may now... | |
 | William Barclay - 1998 - 340 pages
...realized. This is exactly what Browning put into verse in Abt Vogkr. There shall never be lost one good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is...shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round. All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good... | |
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