...sense-perceptions, he has found for us the classical expression : — I know not if, save in this, such power be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Xor, surely, will time ever abrogate anything of the value to the world of those love poems which were...

...improvise like a master. I was thinking of Browning's beautiful lines, put into the mouth of Abt Vogler : " 'But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will...behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are 1 And I know not if, save in this, such a gift be allowed to man. That out of three sounds he frame,...

...noticed this element of miracle, which coincides exactly with Browning's view expressed in the linos : " Here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...behind all laws, that made them, and, lo, they are ! " Now, these seven verses contain the music of the poem ; ir» the remaining ones we pass on to Browning's...

...triumphant art, hut 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 that ear., Existent behind all laws : that made them, and lo, they arc t And I know not if, save in this,...

...this element of miracle, which coincides exactly with Browning's view expressed in the lines : — " ' Here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that...behind all laws, that made them, and, lo, they are ! ' Now, these seven verses contain the music of the poem ; in the remaining ones we pass to Browning's...

...through my keys that gave their sounds to a wish of my soul, All through my soul that praised as its wish flowed visibly forth, All through music and me...out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, hut a star. Consider it well: each tone of our scale in itself is nought; It is everywhere in the world...

...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 that can, 49 Existent behind all laws : that made them, and, lo, they are ! 84. Protoplast — " The original...

...extraction, troubled in spirit because of her non-comprehension of the " star " simile in the line — "That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound but a star" — an artist, and a musician. " But why did he s.iy a star I " persisted the lady, turning to mo....

...of power, or sets it free to flow from the invisible into the visible sphere, leading men to say, ' Here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can ' ? But perhaps, after all, it is more modest and safe to say that we cannot tell how the end is accomplished...

...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...lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such a gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Consider...