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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 20 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Browning, Robert
| From which Browning poem is this quote taken?
"And thus we sit together now,
And all night long we have not stirred,
And yet God has not said a word!" | Robert Browning Quotes
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"Porphyria's Lover". The mental instability of Porphyria's Lover is obvious at the end of the poem. He justifies the murder and deems it acceptable since God hasn't told him otherwise.
"My Last Duchess". The Duke would never stoop so low as to talk to his Duchess and explain what made him unhappy. Instead, he had her killed.
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"When he finishes refection,
Knife and fork he never lays
Cross-wise, to my recollection,
As I do, in Jesu's praise." | Robert Browning Quotes
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"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister". The speaker of "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" focuses on Brother Lawrence's superficial, daily actions, such as the placement of his knife and fork when he has finished eating. This monk completely ignores his own feelings of anger and hatred.
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"She put my arm about her waist,
And made her smooth white shoulder bare." | Robert Browning Quotes
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"Porphyria's Lover". These actions are attributed to Porphyria by her lover. The reader is left to wonder, though, if anything the speaker says is true.
| From which Browning poem is this quote taken?
"She had a heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad." | Robert Browning Quotes
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"My Last Duchess". The Duke's main complaint is that his last Duchess was too happy. Simple things, such as a "bough of cherries" and a "white mule," made her smile. Instead, he believes she should have been made happy because he had given her his "nine-hundred-years-old name."
| From which Browning poem is this quote taken?
"Now, take all my jewels, gorge gold to your fill,
You may kiss me, old man, on my mouth if you will!" | Robert Browning Quotes
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"The Laboratory". The speaker of "The Laboratory" is pleased with the results and makes payment for the poison.
"My Last Duchess". The speaker of "My Last Duchess" (the Duke) invites someone to look at a portrait of his previous wife. The Duke then comments on the qualities of the Duchess that he disliked.
| From which Browning poem is this quote taken?
"She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up, and all the cottage warm." | Robert Browning Quotes
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"Porphyria's Lover". The setting of "Porphyria's Lover" is a cold, stormy night. When Porphyria enters the speaker's cottage, she stirs up the fire and then sits next to him.
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"Which is the poison to poison her, prithee?" | Robert Browning Quotes
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"The Laboratory". The speaker of the "The Laboratory" is obtaining poison to murder her husband's mistress.
| From which Browning poem is this quote taken?
"GR-R-R--there go, my heart's abhorrence!
Water your damned flower-pots, do!" | Robert Browning Quotes
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"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister". Although the speaker of "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" is never named, his hatred of Brother Lawrence is painfully obvious.
keep their promise to anyone. The townspeople had learnt their lesson - to keep their promises to anyone who did something for their town, including and especially pipers. They knew that if they didn't, something similar to the Pied Piper's revenge could happen again.
give him as much money as he wants. The Mayor travelled North, South, East and West to find the Pied Piper and asked everyone he saw if they had seen him. He agreed that when he would find him he would pay 'Silver and gold to his heart's content' if he returned with the children.
22 July. It has been known in the town of Hamelin then and now, that since the 22nd of July 1376, any person who plays music on 'Pied Piper Street' would 'lose his labour'.
| When the Pied Piper had led those whom he had enchanted with his piping behind a door on the side of a mountain, all followed except for one child who was left behind. Why did he not join the other children? | "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning
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he was lame. The only child that was left behind didn't make it in time before the Pied Piper stopped playing, which made all the children stand still. The lame child returned the way he came, and never saw Hamelin again. It is said that the Pied Piper led the children to a place similar to heaven that was a 'joyous land' with 'pleasant sights they see'.
the children of Hamelin. The Pied Piper was furious when he did not receive the full pay that had been promised by the Mayor. For revenge, he abducted all of the children of Hamelin by blowing his pipe in order for the children to follow him.
Weser. The rats in dozens followed the Pied Piper across the streets of Hamelin while he was playing to the River Weser, unaware that they were going to die.
50,000 guilders. The Pied Piper had asked in return from the Mayor 1,000 guilders if he managed to rid his town of the rats. Instead of 1,000 guilders, the Mayor promised he would pay him 50,000 guilders if the job was done. After the rats had been drowned in the river, the Pied Piper had returned to the Mayor's office asking for his money. The Mayor had thought of the money as a joke, and so paid him only 50 guilders.
red and yellow. The Pied Piper is noted for wearing only the colours red and yellow throughout the whole poem. Half his suit is red and the other half is yellow. He is described as having "sharp blue eyes, each like a pin/ And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin/ No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin/ But lips where smile went out and in".
bit them. The rats 'bit the babies in their cradles'. They licked the soups from the maids' ladles, killed the cats and disturbed the women's chats.
rats. The rats caused a great nuisance in the town of Hamelin, and the villagers were annoyed that their Mayor and his Corporation had proposed nothing to do about it.
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