Explore "Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day" by Robert Browning on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I
Ay, this same midnight, by this chair of mine, / Come and review thy counsels: art thou still / Stanch to their teaching? -- not as fools opine / Its purport might be, but as subtler skill / Could, through turbidity, the loaded line / Of logic casting, sound deep, deeper, till / It touched a quietude and reached a shrine / And recognized harmoniously combine / Evil with good, and hailed truth's triumph. -- thine, / Sage dead long since, Bernard de Mandeville!