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374 ELIZABETH BAHBETT BROWKIjSTG.
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and even politician and philanthropist niay remember wise counsel of " her We giving be . pardoned if we make a special reference to the
may which led herfor at that time it needed courage , to sign the courage petition which was , sent with regard to the property of
married women . _* Her name up came with an added , force from , her retired lifewhich had so entirely kept aloof _from the external
because social strugg of , the les happy of the home time where ; cam no e with shield an of added law or wei justice ght just was
needed In the , and same where manner " ' division the scattered of interest words " could and not lines be of . hers which
double touch upon value the because question she to shrank which even our fastidiousl pages are y , devoted from any have thing a
her which _sej 3 aratel consciousness mi y ght from , risk the p of lacing general the danger woman claims , of apart of this our , possible or common looking extreme humanit at her , y did . claims Yet not
prevent her using courageous words when they were needed—did not prevent her showing sympathy for
women" Who speak and claim their portion—by no means Since Of the this soil is , — now but - of a-days the sweat turned in privilege tilling ,
To have only God's curse on us , and not , man ' s . " f We need remind no one of the deep and earnest piety which is
for the the very future soul , of or all consolation her poems for , the and past which _> shines , whether out froni as asp the iration first
page Althoug to the h last her . fragile constitution keen , with its slight and hold intensel on this
delicate world , may apprehension be traced with in which the she felt susceptibility and rendered , the subtlest y influences of lifethere is no shadow of morbid thought or feeling :
the sadness is of , a healthy soul , though it may have been made keener With by such the an frail ear health for and the harmony shattered of frame rhy . thmit is strange to
, poetical note the facility singularl was y careless so great rh that yming it is in a many continual of her marvel poems that . Her she
would leave a jarring rhyme which to many ears entirely mars the flow of her verse . To some this is an unimportant fault , while
others , though loving and repeating her verses constantly , can never an echo get While reconciled there to the have word been which few is poets mated so with great so as imperfect herself ,
there of the are . dramatic yet fewer facult still y amongst . The thoug them hts who she are g so ives entirel us y are devoid * her
revealing thoug Browning hts ; 's the the poem power feelings s we of , have her him a feelings who gallery conceived ; of and varied whereas them characters , and , in yet Robert , each not _,
Lords * Presented and Commons by Lord respectivel Brougham y in and 1856 Sir . Erskine Perry to the Houses of
f Aurora Leigh .
374 Elizabeth Bahbett Browkijstg.
374 ELIZABETH BAHBETT _BROWKIjSTG .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/14/
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