A Primer on BrowningMacmillan and Company, 1891 - 248 pages |
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... seems directly inspired by the breath of a wind which bloweth where it listeth.1 Browning's grandfather was an expert man of business . His father was a genial , popular man , versatile and accomplished . Besides his clever cari ...
... seems directly inspired by the breath of a wind which bloweth where it listeth.1 Browning's grandfather was an expert man of business . His father was a genial , popular man , versatile and accomplished . Besides his clever cari ...
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... seems in Browning's case peculiarly vain . Browning's are the works of a great reader , a winner of universal knowledge , and he early began to assimilate his proper food . His brief inthralment to Byron , of which boyish verses were ...
... seems in Browning's case peculiarly vain . Browning's are the works of a great reader , a winner of universal knowledge , and he early began to assimilate his proper food . His brief inthralment to Byron , of which boyish verses were ...
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... seems a likeness to the poet who was so fond of , and yet so independent of society , able to dispense him- self prodigally because conscious of the colossal strength which he had only to shut his study door upon the silken company to ...
... seems a likeness to the poet who was so fond of , and yet so independent of society , able to dispense him- self prodigally because conscious of the colossal strength which he had only to shut his study door upon the silken company to ...
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... seem contradictory , his beliefs , his selection of subjects , his defects and untowardnesses prove on close inspection to be parts of the most immutable , welded whole . His continuous unity of thought and purpose is extraordinary ...
... seem contradictory , his beliefs , his selection of subjects , his defects and untowardnesses prove on close inspection to be parts of the most immutable , welded whole . His continuous unity of thought and purpose is extraordinary ...
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... , is markedly religious , even devout . Dramatically , of course , as in Christmas - Eve and Easter - Day , Browning frequently travels over the waste places in which he himself seems never to have 22 22 CHAP . BROWNING .
... , is markedly religious , even devout . Dramatically , of course , as in Christmas - Eve and Easter - Day , Browning frequently travels over the waste places in which he himself seems never to have 22 22 CHAP . BROWNING .
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