A Primer on BrowningMacmillan and Company, 1891 - 248 pages |
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... English middle class . In Browning's heredity were germinated his vast intellectual and emotional range and his sus- ceptibility to race differences , but the genius which modulated these varying strains into undreamed - of harmony was ...
... English middle class . In Browning's heredity were germinated his vast intellectual and emotional range and his sus- ceptibility to race differences , but the genius which modulated these varying strains into undreamed - of harmony was ...
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... English Eyebright ' of the third Book of Sordello is Miss Euphrasia Haworth , an early friend . Paracelsus is inscribed to another , Count de Ripert- Monclar , and Strafford to William Macready , for whose little boy , Willy , Browning ...
... English Eyebright ' of the third Book of Sordello is Miss Euphrasia Haworth , an early friend . Paracelsus is inscribed to another , Count de Ripert- Monclar , and Strafford to William Macready , for whose little boy , Willy , Browning ...
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... English life , The Blot in the ' Scutcheon , is Italian rather than English . The criminal , treacherous , magnificent character that fascinated Webster , Tourneur , and Massinger , and all their company has a powerful attraction for ...
... English life , The Blot in the ' Scutcheon , is Italian rather than English . The criminal , treacherous , magnificent character that fascinated Webster , Tourneur , and Massinger , and all their company has a powerful attraction for ...
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... English village road , and the woods under the sunset1 in Sordello form another of Browning's beauties of description . We have , too , in Introduction and Part I. of Pippa Passes wonderful representations of the glare of Italian ...
... English village road , and the woods under the sunset1 in Sordello form another of Browning's beauties of description . We have , too , in Introduction and Part I. of Pippa Passes wonderful representations of the glare of Italian ...
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... English is spoken , and Roland is the prince of poetry's horses . Pictor Ignotus ( Vol . IV . ) is one of Browning's Art poems and turns on an artist's personal problem . Rather than lower his refined ideal to the vulgarity of picture ...
... English is spoken , and Roland is the prince of poetry's horses . Pictor Ignotus ( Vol . IV . ) is one of Browning's Art poems and turns on an artist's personal problem . Rather than lower his refined ideal to the vulgarity of picture ...
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