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. The Twentieth Century - Page 6221901Full view - About this book
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...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... | |
| American essays - 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... | |
| Robert Browning - 1864 - 444 pages
...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... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 274 pages
...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... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 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 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... | |
| Robert Browning - English poetry - 1879 - 304 pages
...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... | |
| Books and bookselling - 1881 - 918 pages
...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,... | |
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