Complete Works of Robert Browning
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY: To Wit : Bernard De Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, ChristoPher Smart, George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard De Lairesse, And Charles Avison. ...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY: To Wit : Bernard De Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, ChristoPher Smart, George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard De Lairesse, And Charles Avison. Introduced By A DIALOGUE BETWEEN APOLLO AND THE FATES ; CONCLUDED BY ANOTHER BETWEEN JOHN FUST AND HIS FRIENDS. 1887. IN MEMORIAM J. MILSAND, OBIIT IV. SEPT. MDCCCLXXXVI. Absens abientem auditque uidetque. APOLLO AND THE FATES. A PROLOGUE. (Hymn, in Mercurium, v. 559. Eumenides, w. 693- 4, 697- 8. Alcestis, vv. 12, 33.) Apollo. [From above, Flame at my footfall, Parnassus! Apollo, Breaking a-blaze on thy topmost peak, Burns thence, down to the depths - dread hollow - Haunt of the Dire Ones. Haste ! They wreak Wrath on Admetus whose respite I seek. The Fates. Below. Darkness. Dragonwise couched in the womb of our Mother, Coiled at thy nourishing heart's core, Night! Dominant Dreads, we, one by the other, Deal to each mortal his dole of light On earth - the upper, the glad, the bright. I o Clotho. Even so : thus from my loaded spindle Plucking a pinch of the fleece, lo, "Birth" Brays from my bronze lip : life I kindle : Look, 't is a man ! go, measure on earth The minute thy portion, whatever its worth ! Lachesis. Woe-purfled, weal-prankt, - if it speed, if it linger,- Life's substance and show are determined by me, Who, meting out, mixing with sure thumb and finger, Lead life the due length : is all smoothness and glee, All tangle and grief? Take the lot, my decree ! 20 ATROPOS. - Which I make an end of: the smooth as the tangled My shears cut asunder: each snap shrieks " One Mortal makes sport for us Moirai who dangled The puppet grotesquely till earth's solid floor Proved fil...
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