...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...: " 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...

...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,...

...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...