 Maud' every now and then — 'There's a wonderful touch. That's very tender. How beautiful that is.' Yes, and it was wonderful, tender, beautiful, and he read exquisitely in a voice like an organ, rather music than speech.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3441915Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1897 - 486 pages
...naivete ! Think of his stopping in ' Maud ' every now and then — ' There's a wonderful touch ! That's very tender. How beautiful that is ! ' Yes, and it...in a voice like an organ, rather music than speech. War, war ! It is terrible certainly. But there are worse plagues, deeper griefs, dreader wounds than... | |
 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1898 - 412 pages
...second bottle of port), and ended by reading Maud through from end to end, and going away at half past two in the morning. If I had had a heart to spare,...a voice like an organ, rather music than speech." One little detail with a certain interest is contributed by a writer in Notes and Queries, who remembers... | |
 | Evan J. Cuthbertson - 1898 - 138 pages
...unexampled naicett ! Think of his stopping Maud every now and then — ' There's a wonderful touch! That's very tender ! How beautiful that is ! ' Yes, and it...in a voice like an organ, rather music than speech. To have won the approval of the Brownings was compensation for many ' mosquito-stings ; ' and Sir Henry... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...naivett ! Think of his stopping in ' Maud ' every now and then — ' There's a wonderful touch ! That's very tender. How beautiful that is ! ' Yes, and it...a voice like an organ, rather music than speech." During her stay in London Mrs. Browning completed her longest and, after the " Sonnets from the Portuguese,"... | |
 | 1899 - 1046 pages
...Think of his stopping in " Maud " evennow and then, exclaiming, " There's a wonderful touch ! That's very tender ! How beautiful that is ! " Yes, and it...in a voice like an organ, rather music than speech. Of a precocious poet who made a brief sensation the letters have such notice as the following: Alexander... | |
 | Robert Forman Horton - 1900 - 358 pages
...naivett. Think of his stopping in ' Maud ' every now and then — ' there's a wonderful touch ! That's very tender ! How beautiful that is ! ' Yes, and it...a voice like an organ, rather music than speech." 1 And Rossetti said, " He is quite as glorious in his way as Browning in his, and perhaps of the two... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1904 - 470 pages
...of his stopping in Maud" she goes on, " every now and then — ' There's a wonderful touch ! That's very tender ! How beautiful that is ! ' Yes and it...a voice like an organ, rather music than speech." One of the few persons who were invited to meet Tennyson on this occasion, Mr WM Rossetti, is still... | |
 | Mrs. Sutherland Orr - 1906 - 460 pages
...wonderful touch I That's very tender. How beautiful that is I ' Yes, and it was wonderful, tender, and beautiful, and he read exquisitely in a voice like an organ, rather music than speech." CHAPTER XTII 1855-1858 Men and Women — Kanhook — Two in the Campagna — Winter in Paris; Lady... | |
 | Mrs. Sutherland Orr - 1908 - 472 pages
...naivete. Think of his stopping in ' Maud ' every now and then — ' There's a wonderful touch ! That's very tender. How beautiful that is ! ' Yes, and it was wonderful, tender, and beautiful, and he read exquisitely in a voice like an organ, rather music than speech." CHAPTER... | |
 | Mrs. Sutherland Orr - 1908 - 468 pages
...naivete. Think of his stopping in ' Maud ' every now and then — ' There's a wonderful touch ! That's very tender. How beautiful that is ! ' Yes, and it was wonderful, tender, and beautiful, and he read exquisitely in a voice like an organ, rather music than speech." CHAPTER... | |
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