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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 875
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one line which is the personal expression of any feeling of his own ; in Mrs . Brownin's volumes there is nothing scarcely but the
g expression of her own thought . Of Robert Browning's character and experience we can guess nothing from , his writings , save his
deep insight into the workings of human nature , and his marvellous power of personifying the most complex and minute traits of
other souls . In her volumes every line is a revelation of herself , a from her own heart to the reader . Through the slender
Isobel veil message of too Ronmey slender , or a Aurora veil to be Lei called gh , or a Marion separate Erie character , or Bertha , we read , or
, her own individuality ; as such , doubtless higher than any one separate creation miht beyet eminently one-sided—a reflection of
herself and of religion g , humanity , and nature in herself , but she has not the -sided genius whichreflecting the innumerable
possibilities it many conceivesleaves its own , to be guessed at , while divining other natures . But , we mean by this distinction to classify , not to
lower Pier , her enthusiasm special genius for liberty . burns through her later volumes with
an intense fire ; so absorbing was her faith in a glorious future of freedom for Italy , that leading her to " believe all things , it let
her place a crown of splendour and of truth upon a name which she her chose " Poems to look b upon efore as Congress the herald / 7 we and can h but arbinger deplore of her what hopes we feel . In a
mistaken beliefand fear that the noble purpose in which she trusted was but , the fruit of her own noble imagination and earnest
desire . But doubtless our readers have also , as we have , turned over the
well-known pages of her poems , and the words they knew by heart have found a new soul in their utterance and a deeper depth in ours
to move . as The a dear thoug and ht familiar of death , expectation which was we seems know to for come many "before years us to now her
out of her poems with a repetition , we had hardly noticed before ; and , as we have already said , with a newer and more sacred
meaning Many . hearts will now repeat her own words , and feel them truly
as the fittest to be uttered over her grave . " And friends , dear friends , when it shall be
That And this round low breath bier is gone come from to me , Xiet one most loving y of ye you all , weep ,
Say He , _DSTot giveth a tea His ? must beloved o ' er sleep her fal . " lremem her They life b er will , an a d blind feel look , that regret with an upon unreasoning her grave p , ity but upon rather , the s trials ay , and of
" And Knowled Life ge is b perfected y _suffering by entereth Death . " ,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 875
_ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING . 875
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/15/
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