Browning expresses this in "Andrea Del Sarto."--Translator.

[10] Note our common expression: He is worth so much.--Tr.

[11]

"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

"Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his field withstood,
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood."
--Stanzas from GRAY'S "Elegy in a Country Church-yard." Translator.

[12]

"Cursed be the gold that gilds the straighten'd forehead of
the fool!"
--Tennyson, in "Locksley Hall."


"Gold, yellow, glittering, precious gold!
Thus, much of this will make black, white; foul, fair;
Wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant."
--Shakespeare, in "Timon of Athens."--Translator.