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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 373
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prodi to ner gious testing erudition and anal was ysing altogether intellect subordinated , and to her and practic subservient e of
'Christian ethics . " MrsBrownin ' s health had always required extreme care , yet
had not . given more g than usual cause for anxiety since she left Home and returned to Florence about six weeks agotill a cold ,
, which at first seemed slight , fastened upon her lungs ; and after a vain struggle of a week with the diseaseher strength becoming
, . graduall the 29 th y exhausted of June , , " she one passed hour away after dawn on the , _" morning conscious of , Saturday and calm ,
leaving and resi and gned the , and lory with to which words she on was her passing lips of . the love she was
She leaves a son g thirteen years of age . Such are the facts which the world knows of Elizabeth Barrett
" _^ Her Browning earl ' s initiation life ; and both all this into the and world more of can ancient be read lore in and her into poert the y .
world of y ever-old and , ever-new sorrowcan be traced in many of full her y verses embalmed ; her friendshi by herself p with in her men verses of taste , to Hug and h learning Stuart Boy is beauti d , the - friend John
blind Kenyon preface scholar to ; her her filial , and two affection in volumes her de and , dications which respect preface to are her touching , when cousin repeated ly and recorde in d in later the
editionscame with a sad pleading significance to all who knew how old bitterl home y , and unavailing Her strong ly and she dep cling lored ing her womanl estrangement y hold on from domestic her
. associations and memories lives in every line of her earlier verses ; and the record of her devotion as wife and mother is made immortal
as are the even love now itself stirring , in a flood pain of in tender many hearts and harmonious and bring words ing tears which to must be in the
• many household eyes . where For such they a reve heart al was what so the latel desolation y beating , and is now cold
and still for ever . But over this threshold we have no right to intrudesave as
uniting w _& h the sympathy which goes silently out to the , husband and child in their Florentine homeand which will not be
iinportuaiate or ineffectual , just because it , is itself homage and respect to her volumes It they is strange have have gained lost to . see a newer how many and more of the sacred lines meaning and words to us in since her
we know the voice that spoke them is silent . And , in like manner , . the faintest allusions and dimmest revelations of home-life which sadder and
• we even trace deeper throug interest h the than later they verses had it of b her rise efore husb before . and " The have great a write brow and and
the while sp we irit- hear small some hand of propp her ing own words , " speaking us to as we us with , even more solemn sweetness than of old .
She did not , to use her own
words—A sublime " . art . friv . olousl . pursue y "—
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 373
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING . 373
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/13/
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