...principle, as he laid it down in the dedication to Bordello. " The historical decoration," he says, " was purposely of no more importance than a background...development of 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...

...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...

...must — like: but after all, I imagined another thing at first, and therefore leave as I find it. The historical decoration was purposely of no more...development of a soul: little else is worth study. I, at least, always thought so, — you, with many known and unknown to me, think so, — others may...

...lunatic, and even he did not pretend to understand it. In a dedication written in 1863 Browning says : "The historical decoration was purposely of no more...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 of a soul : little else is worth study ; I at least always thought so. My own faults of expression were many ; but with care for a man or...

...must,—like : but after all, I imagined another thing at first, and therefore leave as I find it. The historical decoration was purposely of no more...development of a soul: little else is worth study. I, at least, always thought so—you, with many known and unknown to me, think so— others may one...

...In the dedication of " Sordello," written twenty-five years after the poem itself, Browning says, " The historical decoration was purposely of no more...development of a soul ; little else is worth study." And at the end of this Ring and Pool: he writes, — So did this old woe fade from memory, Till after,...

...must, — like : but after all, I imagined another thing at first, and therefore leave as I find it. The historical decoration was purposely of no more...development of a soul : little else is worth study. /, at least, always thought so — you, with many known and unknown to me, think so — others may...

...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...

...is of importance to him so far as it illustrates or enforces his main thomo. But when ho adds " tho historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires," he does himself either more or less than justice in respect of tho poem as a whole. For tho wealth...