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" The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study. "
American Illustrated Magazine - Page 531
1888
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 80

Henry Allon - 1884 - 548 pages
...informing though I ' (The Ring and Book, i. 71.) A Soul 's Tragedy. 13 incidents of the development of the soul : little else is worth study. I at least always...unknown to me, think so ; others may one day think so.' ' Paracelsus ' and ' Sordello ' remain a monument — and not, perhaps, so hieroglyphical as has been...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issues 1-50

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...historical decoration," he says, " was purposely of no more importance than a background requires ; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development...a soul : little else is worth study. I, at least, have always thought so ... others may one day think so." This is just what Pope put plainly when he...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 95

1905 - 880 pages
...in Herbert's poetry. He might well say with Browning, whom in many respects he strongly resembles, "My stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul; little else is worth study." But it is when Herbert turns to man's side of the great alliance, to man's wavering yet inevitable...
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Sordello, Strafford, Christmas-eve and Easter-day

Robert Browning - 1864 - 458 pages
...find it. The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development...to me, think so, — others may one day think so: and whether my attempt remain for them or not, I trust, though away and past it, to continue ever yours,...
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Little Classics, Volume 18

Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 274 pages
...says : "The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires ; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul : little else is worth stndy." Between 1842 and 1846 Mr. Browning published a series of dramatic and lyric poems, under the...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 30

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1890 - 548 pages
...who had been one of his earliest admirers : — ' I wrote it twenty-five years ago for a few . . . My stress lay on the incidents in the development...else is worth study ; I at least always thought so. My own faults of expression were many ; but with care for a man or book such would be surmounted, and...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning ...

Robert Browning - 1879 - 304 pages
...it. The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires ; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development...little else is worth study. I, at least, always thought so—you, with many known and unknown to me, think so— others may one day think so ; and whether...
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Papers, Parts 1-4

Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...: " The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires ; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul ; little else is worth study." already mentioned such pieces as The Bishop orders ?iu Tomb (it St. Práxedes (in which Euskin finds...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 251

1881 - 952 pages
...says, "The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires ; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul ; little else is worth study." And at the end of this Ring and Book he writes, — So did this old woe fade from memory, Till after,...
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Papers, Part 12

Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 316 pages
...of Hamelin and Ghent— which were outside his ordinary range of interest, wide as that was. " lly stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul; little else is worth study." These words from the dedication to the reprint of Sordello—itself the key to all Browning's more...
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