Sales catalogue 570: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/115
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 570: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Browning (Robert)—continued. ‘Then put on all thy gorgeous arms—thy helmet And brigandine of brass, thy broad harbergeon, Vant-bras and greaves, and gauntlet, and thy spear, A weaver’s beam, and seven-times-folded shield! I only with an oaken staff will meet thee, And raise such on thy clattered Iron, Which long shall not withhold me from thy hand, That in a little time while breath remains thee, Thou oft shalt wish thyself at Gath! Milton: Samson Ags, ‘‘ But the string of things to say, is out of the Prologue to Goethe’s Faust which I have spent much time this morning in a hunt after and with no success. The ‘ Poet’ there, answers the solicitations or requirements of the ‘ manager ’ that he should popularize and degrade his style and matter ad captand vulg.—and answers famously: I would get the book, had I time, cannot you refer to some translation—Haywood’s prose or Anster’s verse? It.is well worth while.’’ Etc. WITH VERSE. 52 BROWNING (ROBERT). Po VOGRAPH OLE PLR R SIGNED: AND VERSE OF FOUR LINES, TO ARCHDEACON FARRAR. 2 pages, 8vo. London, 18th December, 1887. £45 A remarkably fine letter of Robert Browning in which he sends a verse for the Queen Victoria Jubilee Window in St. Margarets’, West- minster. ‘¢. . . I suppose the more simple and obvious the thought and expression of it, the fitter will it be for your purpose. But I trust you will be as good as your own word, which promised that I was ‘ quite free to decline’ in such a case: how much more are you at liberty to decline to accept my attempt.’’ Etc. ‘* Fifty years’ flight! Wherein should he rejoice Who hailed their birth, who as they die decays? This—England echoes his attesting voice: ‘ Wondrous and well—thanks, Ancient Thou of Days!’ ”’ 53 [BROWNING (ROBERT). | BOUR WAU FOGRAPHA DEL DERS ) SIGNED «FROM: J.) Ti. NETTLESHIP ADDRESSED TO ROBERT BROWNING. 17 pages, 8vo. London and Kettering, 1868-1870. With Four addressed envelopes. £3 10s An interesting series of letters in which Nettleship states that he is waiting anxiously for the two first volumes of Browning’s ‘‘ Ring and the Book,’’ and later thanks him for the last two volumes which he has not yet finished reading.
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