Crossword-Solution: VOGLER 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

And so in ‘Abt Vogler’; the abbot’s instrument is only the means whereby he strikes out the light of faith and hope within him.

She imagines him saying:-- “Shall earth and the cramped moment-space Yield the heavenly crowning grace? Now the parts and then the whole! * Who art thou with stinted soul And stunted body, thus to cry ‘I love,--shall that be life’s strait dole? I must live beloved or die!’ This peasant hand that spins the wool And bakes the bread, why lives it on, Poor and coarse with beauty gone,-- What use survives the beauty? Fool!” -- * “On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.”--Abt Vogler.

Browning presents Vogler as a great extemporizer, in which character he appears to have been the most famous.

For a further account, see Miss Eleanor Marx’s paper on the Abbe Vogler, from which the above facts have been derived (‘Browning Soc.

But in ‘Abt Vogler’, the understanding is spell-bound, and carried on the wings of the emotions, as Ganymede in the soft down of the eagle, into the world of spirit.