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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Tomb at St. Praxed's and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis."
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Memoirs of Mrs. Jameson that lady's niece, Mrs. Macpherson, relates how on the eve of her and her aunt's departure, a little note of farewell arrived from Miss Barrett,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My aunt's surprise was something almost comical, writes Mrs. Macpherson,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before departing from Paris, Mrs. Jameson, in writing to a friend, alluded to her unexpected companions, and added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Both excellent: but God help them! for I know not how the two poet heads and poet hearts will get on through this prosaic world. This kindly friend was not the only person who experienced similar doubts. One acquaintance, no other than the Poet-Laureate, Wordsworth, added:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett have gone off together! Well, I hope they may understand each other--nobody else could!"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it was with that restful hush which precedes the creative storm. There is something deeply pathetic in her conscious joy. So little actual experience of life had been hers that in many respects she was as a child: and she had all the child's yearning for those unsullied hours that never come when once they are missed. But it was not till love unfastened the inner chambers of her heart and brain that she realised to the full, what she had often doubted, how supreme a thing mere life is. It was in some such mood that she wrote the lovely forty-second of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sonnets from the Portuguese,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us stay Rather on earth, Belovèd,--where the unfit Contrarious moods of men recoil away And isolate pure spirits, and permit A place to stand and love in for a day, With darkness and the death-hour rounding it."
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sonnets from the Portuguese which no poet of Portugal had ever written, which no man could have written, which no other woman than his wife could have composed. From the time when it had first dawned upon her that love was to be hers, and that the laurel of poetry was not to be her sole coronal, she had found expression for her exquisite trouble in these short poems, which she thinly disguised from 'inner publicity' when she issued them as"
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after Death!"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange My near sweet view of heaven for earth with thee!"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Browning's health almost leapt, so swift was her advance towards vigour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is getting better every day, wrote her husband,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But early in April, when the swallows had flown inland above the pines of Viareggio, and Shelley's favourite little Aziola was hooting silverly among the hollow vales of Carrara, the two poets prepared to leave what the frailer of them called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Even human faces divine are quite _rococo_ with me, Mrs. Browning wrote to a friend. The change to Florence was a welcome one to both. Browning had already been there, but to his wife it was as the fulfilment of a dream. They did not at first go to that romantic old palace which will be for ever sociate with the author of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Casa Guidi Windows,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The heat was just the fiercest fire of your imagination, and I _seethe_ to think of it at this distance."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Guardian Angel, which had its origin in Guercino's picture in the chapel at Fano. By the allusions in the sixth and eighth stanzas it is clear that the poem was inscribed to Alfred Domett, the poet's well-loved friend immortalised as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Waring. Doubtless it was written for no other reason than the urgency of song, for in it are the loving allusions to his wife,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three times they went to the chapel, he tells us in the seventh stanza, to drink in to their souls' content the beauty of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "picture. Browning has rarely uttered the purely personal note of his inner life. It is this that affords a peculiar value to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Guardian Angel,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How soon all worldly wrong would be repaired! I think how I should view the earth and skies And sea, when once again my brow was bared After thy healing, with such different eyes. O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. What further may be sought for or declared?"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book, and there, in the many years he dwelt in Casa Guidi, he wrote some of his finer shorter poems. There, also,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aurora Leigh"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We were reading your letter, together, on our little terrace--walking up and down reading it--I mean the letter to Robert--and then, at the end, suddenly turning, lo, just at the edge of the stones, just between the balustrades, and already fluttering in a breath of wind and about to fly away over San Felice's church, we caught a glimpse of the feather of a note to E.B.B. How near we were to the loss of it, to be sure!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "While in and out the terrace-plants, and round One branch of tall datura, waxed and waned The lamp-fly lured there, wanting the white flower."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those who have known Casa Guidi as it was, could hardly enter the loved rooms now, and speak above a whisper. They who have been so favoured, can never forget the square anteroom, with its great picture and pianoforte, at which the boy Browning passed many an hour--the little dining-room covered with tapestry, and where hung medallions of Tennyson, Carlyle, and Robert Browning--the long room filled with plaster-casts and studies, which was Mrs. Browning's retreat--and, dearest of all, the large drawing-room where _she_ always sat. It opens upon a balcony filled with plants, and looks out upon the iron-grey church of Santa Felice. There was something about this room that seemed to make it a proper and especial haunt for poets. The dark shadows and subdued light gave it a dreary look, which was enhanced by the tapestry-covered walls, and the old pictures of saints that looked out sadly from their carved frames of black wood. Large bookcases constructed of specimens of Florentine carving selected by Mr. Browning were brimming over with wise-looking books. Tables were covered with more gaily-bound volumes, the gifts of brother authors. Dante's grave profile, a cast of Keats's face and brow taken after death, a pen-and-ink sketch of Tennyson, the genial face of John Kenyon, Mrs. Browning's good friend and relative, little paintings of the boy Browning, all attracted the eye in turn, and gave rise to a thousand musings. A quaint mirror, easy-chairs and sofas, and a hundred nothings that always add an indescribable charm, were all massed in this room. But the glory of all, and that which sanctified all, was seated in a low arm-chair near the door. A small table, strewn with writing-materials, books, and newspapers, was always by her side.... After her death, her husband had a careful water-colour drawing made of this room, which has been engraved more than once. It still hangs in his drawing-room, where the mirror and one of the quaint chairs above named still are. The low arm-chair and small table are in Browning's study--with his father's desk, on which he has written all his poems."
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is a soul of fire enclosed in a shell of pearl: her frame"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and those fine words which prove that he too was of the brotherhood of the poets,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her tremulous voice often flutters over her words like the flame of a dying candle over the wick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sarianna wherewith the child, if a girl, was to have been christened. Thereafter their"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poetical Works were published in two volumes. Some of the most beautiful of his shorter poems are to be found therein. What a new note is struck throughout, what range of subject there is! Among them all, are there any more treasurable than two of the simplest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Home Thoughts from Abroad and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Night and Morning"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Meeting at Night and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Parting at Morning."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christmas Eve and Easter Day, that remarkable _apologia_ for Christianity, and close-reasoned presentation of the religious thought of the time. It is, however, for this reason that it is so widely known and admired: for it is ever easier to attract readers by dogma than by beauty, by intellectual argument than by the seduction of art. Coincidently, Mrs. Browning wrote the first portion of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Casa Guidi Windows."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guardian Angel."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such life here, through such length of hours, Such miracles performed in play, Such primal naked forms of flowers, Such letting nature have her way."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I drink my fill at your soul's springs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just when I seemed about to learn! Where is the thread now? off again! The old trick! Only I discern-- Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At Home and Abroad,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to the reprint, the essay is noteworthy, not merely as a signal service to Shelley's fame and memory, but for Browning's statement of his own aim in his own work, both as objective and subjective poet. The same clear-sightedness and impartial sympathy, which are such distinguishing characteristics of his dramatic studies of human thought and emotion, are obvious in Browning's Shelley essay."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would be idle to enquire, he writes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sludge the Medium or a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pacchiarotto, or even a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, and given us more of such honourable work in"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "flirted with Francesca"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and wrote alternately with a feathered quill from the breast of a nightingale and with a lancet steeped in aquafortis: and here, a quarter of a century afterward, Robert and Elizabeth Browning also laughed and wept and"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a Balcony, composed mainly while walking alone through the forest glades), Mrs. Browning found that the chill breath of the _tramontana_ was affecting her lungs, so a move was made to Rome, for the passing of the winter (1853-4). In the spring their little boy, their beloved"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pen, [22] became ill with malaria. This delayed their return to Florence till well on in the summer. During this stay in Rome Mrs. Browning rapidly proceeded with"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aurora Leigh, and Browning wrote several of his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men and Women, including the exquisite 'Love among the Ruins,' with its novel metrical music; 'Fra Lippo Lippi,' where the painter, already immortalised by Landor, has his third warrant of perpetuity; the 'Epistle of Karshish' (in part); 'Memorabilia' (composed on the Campagna); 'Saul,' a portion of which had been written and published ten years previously, that noble and lofty utterance, with its trumpet-like note of the regnant spirit; the concluding part of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a Balcony; and 'Holy Cross Day'--besides, probably, one or two others. In the late spring (April 27th) also, he wrote the short dactylic lyric, 'Ben Karshook's Wisdom.' This little poem was given to a friend for appearance in one of the then popular _Keepsakes_--literally given, for Browning never contributed to magazines. The very few exceptions to this rule were the result of a kindliness stronger than scruple: as when (1844), at request of Lord Houghton (then Mr. Monckton Milnes), he sent 'Tokay,' the 'Flower's Name,' and 'Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis,' to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As 'Ben Karshook's Wisdom,' though it has been reprinted in several quarters, will not be found in any volume of Browning's works, and was omitted from"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men and Women"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pennini, which was later abbreviated to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pen. The cognomen, Hawthorne states, was a diminutive of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Apennino, which was bestowed upon the boy in babyhood because he was very small, there being a statue in Florence of colossal size called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Apennino."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men and Women was published. It is difficult to understand how a collection comprising poems such as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Love among the Ruins,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evelyn Hope,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fra Lippo Lippi,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Toccata of Galuppi's,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Any Wife to any Husband,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Andrea del Sarto,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a Balcony,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Saul,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Grammarian's Funeral, to mention only ten now almost universally known, did not at once obtain a national popularity for the author. But lovers of literature were simply enthralled: and the two volumes had a welcome from them which was perhaps all the more ardent because of their disproportionate numbers. Ears alert to novel poetic music must have thrilled to the new strain which sounded first--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Love among the Ruins,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half asleep Tinkle homeward through the twilight, stray or stop As they crop-- Was the site once of a city great and gay ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aurora Leigh"
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One Word More, wherewith her husband, a few months earlier, sent forth his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men and Women, to be for ever associated with"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "E.B.B."
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aurora Leigh was published, and met with an almost unparalleled success: even Landor, most exigent of critics, declared that he was"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She lives so ardently, adds Mrs. Hawthorne,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book, and for earlier and shorter though not less royal aerial journeyings. But also, no doubt, the prolonged comparatively unproductive period of eight or nine years (1855-1864), between the publication of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men and Women and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dramatis Personæ, was due in some measure to the poet's incessant and anxious care for his wife, to the deep sorrow of witnessing her slow but visible passing away, and to the profound grief occasioned by her death. However, barrenness of imaginative creative activity can be only very relatively affirmed, even of so long a period, of years wherein were written such memorable and treasurable poems as 'James Lee's Wife,' among Browning's writings what 'Maud' is among Lord Tennyson's; 'Gold Hair: a Legend of Pornic;' 'Dis Aliter Visum;' 'Abt Vogler,' the most notable production of its kind in the language; 'A Death in the Desert,' that singular and impressive study; 'Caliban upon Setebos,' in its strange potency of interest and stranger poetic note, absolutely unique; 'Youth and Art;' 'Apparent Failure;' 'Prospice,' that noble lyrical defiance of death; and the supremely lofty and significant series of weighty stanzas, 'Rabbi Ben Ezra,' the most quintessential of all the distinctively psychical monologues which Browning has written. It seems to me that if these two poems only,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prospice and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rabbi Ben Ezra, were to survive to the day of Macaulay's New Zealander, the contemporaries of that meditative traveller would have sufficient to enable them to understand the great fame of the poet of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lesbia illa, Illa Lesbia, quam Catullus unam Plus quam se, atque suos amavit omnes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Collected Works, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Selections, in its lack of the three stanzas now numbered xxi., xxii., and xxiii.) was printed for limited private circulation, though primarily for the purpose of securing American copyright. Browning several times printed single poems thus, and for the same reasons--that is, either for transatlantic copyright, or when the verses were not likely to be included in any volume for a prolonged period. These leaflets or half-sheetlets of 'Gold Hair' and 'Prospice,' of 'Cleon' and 'The Statue and the Bust'--together with the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, published, for benefit of a charity, in 1854--are among the rarest"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poems before Congress had a grudging reception from the critics, because they dared to hint that all was not roseate-hued in England. The true patriots are those who love despite blemishes, not those who cherish the blemishes along with the virtues. To hint at a flaw is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arabel of so many affectionate letters. Once more a winter in Rome proved temporally restorative. But at last the day came when she wrote her last poem--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "North and South,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prospice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One Word More, which has been already quoted in part: of the two or three subsequent to that event none surpasses the magic close of the first part of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ring and the Book."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Private Views"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poetical Works of Robert Browning, M.A., Honorary Fellow of Baliol College, Oxford, were issued in six volumes. Here the equator of Browning's genius may be drawn. On the further side lie the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men and Women of the period anterior to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book : midway is the transitional zone itself: on the hither side are the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men and Women"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book was not published till November. In September the poet was staying with his sister and son at Le Croisic, a picturesque village at the mouth of the Loire, at the end of the great salt plains which stretch down from Guérande to the Bay of Biscay. No doubt, in lying on the sand-dunes in the golden September glow, in looking upon the there somewhat turbid current of the Loire, the poet brooded on those days when he saw its inland waters with her who was with him no longer save in dreams and memories. Here he wrote that stirring poem,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hervé Riel, founded upon the valorous action of a French sailor who frustrated the naval might of England, and claimed nothing as a reward save permission to have a holiday on land to spend a few hours with his wife,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hervé Riel (which has been translated into French, and is often recited, particularly in the maritime towns, and is always evocative of enthusiastic applause) is one of Browning's finest action-lyrics, and is assured of the same immortality as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, or the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pied Piper"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men and Women,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dramatis Personæ, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dramatic Romances, besides the longer"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Soul's Tragedy,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a Balcony, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christmas Eve and Easter Day --the most Christian poem of the century, according to one eminent cleric, the heterodox self-sophistication of a free-thinker, according to another: really, the reflex of a great crisis, that of the first movement of the tide of religious thought to a practically limitless freedom. This edition also contained"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bishop Blougram,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Selections by the poet's latest publishers:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dedicated to Alfred Tennyson. In Poetry--illustrious and consummate: In Friendship--noble and sincere. It was in his preface to this selection that he wrote the often-quoted words:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor do I apprehend any more charges of being wilfully obscure, unconscientiously careless, or perversely harsh. At or about the date of these"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Selections the poet wrote to a friend, on this very point of obscurity,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can have little doubt that my writing has been in the main too hard for many I should have been pleased to communicate with; but I never designedly tried to puzzle people, as some of my critics have supposed. On the other hand, I never pretended to offer such literature as should be a substitute for a cigar or a game at dominoes to an idle man. So perhaps, on the whole, I get my deserts, and something over--not a crowd, but a few I value more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "), a villa among the mountains near Geneva; this time with the additional company of Miss Anne Egerton Smith, an intimate and valued friend. But there was an unhappy close to the holiday. Miss Smith died on the night of the fourteenth of September, from heart complaint."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Saisiaz"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He, at least, believed in Soul, was very sure of God."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Saisiaz was published along with"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Two Poets of Croisic, which was begun and partly written at the little French village ten years previously. There is nothing of the eight-score stanzas of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two Poets"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such a starved bank of moss Till that May-morn Blue ran the flash across: Violets were born."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Two Poets of Croisic to be anything more than"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--it is as a poem distinctly inferior to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Saisiaz."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Five short days, scarce enough to Bronze the clustered wilding apple, redden ripe the mountain ash."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blanc, supreme above his earth-brood, needles red and white and green, Horns of silver, fangs of crystal set on edge in his demesne."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gay he hails her, and magnific, thrilled her black length burns to gold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Past the city's congregated peace of homes and pomp of spires."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book are, broadly speaking, of two kinds. On the one side may be ranged the groups which really cohere with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men and Women. These are"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Inn Album, the miscellaneous poems of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pacchiarotto volume, the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dramatic Idyls, some of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jocoseria, and some of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Asolando."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ferishtah's Fancies and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parleyings are not, collectively, dramatic poems, but poems of illuminative insight guided by a dramatic imagination.[23] They, and the classical poems and translations (renderings, rather, by one whose own individuality dominates them to the exclusion of that _nearness_ of the original author, which it should be the primary aim of the translator to evoke), the beautiful"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Balaustion's Adventure,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aristophanes' Apology, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, and the third group, which comprises"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red Cotton Nightcap Country, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fifine at the Fair"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope and believe that one or two careful readings of the Poem [Ferishtah's Fancies] will make its sense clear enough. Above all, pray allow for the Poet's inventiveness in any case, and do not suppose there is more than a thin disguise of a few Persian names and allusions. There was no such person as Ferishtah--the stories are all inventions. ... The Hebrew quotations are put in for a purpose, as a direct acknowledgment that certain doctrines may be found in the Old Book, which the Concocters of Novel Schemes of Morality put forth as discoveries of their own."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau (the name, by the way, is not purely fanciful, being formed from Hohen Schwangau, one of the castles of the late King of Bavaria) is Browning's complement to his wife's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ode to Napoleon III."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Cotton Nightcap Country is a true story, the narrative of the circumstances pertinent to the tragic death of one Antonio Mellerio, a Paris jeweller, which occurred in 1870 at St. Aubin in Normandy, where, indeed, the poet first heard of it in all its details. It is a story which, if the method of poetry and the method of prose could for a moment be accepted as equivalent, might be said to be of the school of a light and humorously grotesque Zola. It has the fundamental weakness of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ring and the Book"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fifine at the Fair, on the other hand, is so powerful and often so beautiful a poem that one would be rash indeed were he, with the blithe critical assurance which is so generally snuffed out like a useless candle by a later generation, to prognosticate its inevitable seclusion from the high place it at present occupies in the estimate of the poet's most uncompromising admirers. But surely equally rash is the assertion that it will be the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "However, our concern is not with problematical estimates, but with the poem as it appears to _us_. It is one of the most characteristic of Browning's productions. It would be impossible for the most indolent reader or critic to attribute it, even if anonymous, to another parentage. Coleridge alludes somewhere to certain verses of Wordsworth's, with the declaration that if he had met them howling in the desert he would have recognised their authorship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fifine"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fifine. In the words of Mrs. Orr,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the Goncourt school of novelists. In the same way, we too often see Browning working up the electrical qualities, so that, when the fulmination comes, we understand"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and, as illogically as children before a too elaborate conjurer, conclude that there is not so much in this particular poetic feat as in others which, like Herrick's maids, continually do deceive. To me this is affirmable of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fifine at the Fair. The poet seems to know so very well what he is doing. If he did not take the reader so much into his confidence, if he would rely more upon the liberal grace of his earlier verse and less upon the trained subtlety of his athletic intellect, the charm would be the greater. The poem would have a surer duration as one of the author's greater achievements, if there were more frequent and more prolonged insistence on the note struck in the lines (§ lxxiii.) about the hill-stream, infant of mist and dew, falling over the ledge of the fissured cliff to find its fate in smoke below, as it disappears into the deep,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hence, when the earth began afresh its life in May, And fruit-trees bloomed, and waves would wanton, and the bay Ruffle its wealth of weed, and stranger-birds arrive, And beasts take each a mate."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I became aware, scarcely the word escaped my lips, that swift ensued in silence and by stealth, and yet with certitude, a formidable change of the amphitheatre which held the Carnival; _although the human stir continued just the same amid that shift of scene_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And where i' the world is all this wonder, you detail so trippingly, espied? My mirror would reflect a tall, thin, pale, deep-eyed personage, pretty once, it may be, doubtless still loving--certain grace yet lingers if you will--but all this wonder, where?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fifine"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fifine,"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jocoseria, [24] it seems to me the poorest of Browning's works, and I cannot help thinking that ultimately the only gold grain discoverable therein will be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ixion,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never the time and the place And the loved one altogether;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What of the leafage, what of the flower? Roses embowering with nought they embower! Come then! complete incompletion, O comer, Pant through the blueness, perfect the summer! Breathe but one breath Rose-beauty above, And all that was death Grows life, grows love, Grows love!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Browning Society"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Browning Society, I need not say, as well as Browning himself, are fair game for criticism. I had no more to do with the founding it than the babe unborn; and, as Wilkes was no Wilkeite, I am quite other than a Browningite. But I cannot wish harm to a society of, with a few exceptions, names unknown to me, who are busied about my books so disinterestedly. The exaggerations probably come of the fifty-years'-long charge of unintelligibility against my books; such reactions are possible, though I never looked for the beginning of one so soon. That there is a grotesque side to the thing is certain; but I have been surprised and touched by what cannot but have been well intentioned, I think. Anyhow, as I never felt inconvenienced by hard words, you will not expect me to wax bumptious because of undue compliment: so enough of 'Browning,'--except that he is yours very truly, 'while this machine is to him.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Balaustion's Adventure in terms of gracious courtesy, or handing a flower from some jar of roses, or lilies, or his favourite daffodils, with a bright smile or merry glance, to the lady of his regard, or when sending a copy of a new book of poetry with an accompanying letter expressed with rare felicity, or when generously prophesying for a young poet the only true success if he will but listen and act upon"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vous êtes poëte?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On s'est permis de me le dire quelquefois."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Et vous avez fait des livres?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trop de livres."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Voulez-vous m'en donner un, afin que je puisse me ressouvenir de vous?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Avec plaisir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here do I present my poetry to a personage for whom I do not care three straws; why should I not venture to do as much for a young lady I love dearly, who, for the author's sake, will not impossibly care rather for the inside than the outside of the volume?"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Home Thoughts from the Sea, and that flawless strain of bird-music,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Home Thoughts from Abroad: then, also, that he composed"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How they brought the Good News. Concerning the last, he wrote, in 1881 (_vide The Academy_, April 2nd),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no sort of historical foundation about [this poem]. I wrote it under the bulwark of a vessel off the African coast, after I had been at it long enough to appreciate even the fancy of a gallop on the back of a certain good horse, 'York,' then in my stable at home. It was written in pencil on the fly-leaf of Bartoli's _Simboli_, I remember."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His lips quivered often without utterance, as if with the wind of an internal speech."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall soon depart for Venice, on my way homeward"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "God's in His heaven, All's right with the world!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the beautiful Palazzo Rezzonico, on the Grand Canal. He was never happier, more sanguine, more joyous, than here. He worked for three or four hours each morning, walked daily for about two hours, crossed occasionally to the Lido with his sister, and in the evenings visited friends or went to the opera. But for some time past, his heart--always phenomenally slow in its action, and of late ominously intermittent--had been noticeably weaker. As he suffered no pain and little inconvenience, he paid no particular attention to the matter. Browning had as little fear of death as doubt in God. In a controlling Providence he did indeed profoundly believe. He felt, with Joubert, that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Browning's 'orthodoxy' brought him into many a combat with his rationalistic friends, some of whom could hardly believe that he took his doctrine seriously. Such was the fact, however; indeed, I have heard that he once stopped near an open-air assembly which an atheist was haranguing, and, in the freedom of his _incognito_, gave strenuous battle to the opinions uttered. To one who had spoken of an expected 'Judgment Day' as a superstition, I heard him say: 'I don't see that. Why should there not be a settling day in the universe, as when a master settles with his workmen at the end of the week?' There was something in his tone and manner which suggested his dramatic conception of religious ideas and ideals."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How should externals satisfy my soul? was his cry in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sordello,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two and two only, supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haply for us the ideal dawn shall break ... And set our pulse in tune with moods divine"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ever and again, of course, he was betrayed by the bewildering and defiant puzzle of life: seeing in the face of the child the seed of sorrow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet never of him could be written that thrilling saying which Sainte-Beuve uttered of Pascal,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That lost traveller who yearns for home, who, strayed without a guide in a dark forest, takes many times the wrong road, goes, returns upon his steps, is discouraged, sits down at a crossing of the roads, utters cries to which no one responds, resumes his march with frenzy and pain, throws himself upon the ground and wants to die, and reaches home at last only after all sorts of anxieties and after sweating blood. No darkness, no tempest, no gloom, long confused his vision of 'the ideal dawn.' As the carrier-dove is often baffled, yet ere long surely finds her way through smoke and fog and din to her far country home, so he too, however distraught, soon or late soared to untroubled ether. He had that profound inquietude, which the great French critic says 'attests a moral nature of a high rank, and a mental nature stamped with the seal of the archangel.' But, unlike Pascal--who in Sainte-Beuve's words exposes in the human mind itself two abysses,"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Death, death! It is this harping on death I despise so much, he remarked with emphasis of gesture as well as of speech--the inclined head and body, the right hand lightly placed upon the listener's knee, the abrupt change in the inflection of the voice, all so characteristic of him---"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Revolt of Islam. What memories, what deep thoughts, it must have suggested; how significant, to us, the circumstance! But weak as the poet was, he yet did not see the shadow which had begun to chill the hearts of the watchers. Shortly before the great bell of San Marco struck ten, he turned and asked if any news had come concerning"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Asolando, published that day. His son read him a telegram from the publishers, telling how great the demand was and how favourable were the advance-articles in the leading papers. The dying poet smiled and muttered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How gratifying!"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alastor must have occurred to many a mourner; for gone, indeed, was"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak, And voiceless hangs the world beside his bier, Our words are sobs, our cry of praise a tear: We are the smitten mortal, we the weak. We see a spirit on Earth's loftiest peak Shine, and wing hence the way he makes more clear: See a great Tree of Life that never sere Dropped leaf for aught that age or storms might wreak: Such ending is not Death: such living shows What wide illumination brightness sheds From one big heart--to conquer man's old foes: The coward, and the tyrant, and the force Of all those weedy monsters raising heads When Song is murk from springs of turbid source."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "No more subjected to the change or chance Of the unsteady planets----"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pippa Passes was the predestinated novel thinker in marble, so Browning himself appears as the predestinated novel thinker in verse; the novel thinker, however, in degree, not in kind. But I do not for a moment believe that his greatness is in his status as a thinker: even less, that the poet and the thinker are indissociable. Many years ago Sainte-Beuve destroyed this shallow artifice of pseudo-criticism:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Venir nous dire que tout poëte de talent est, par essence, un grand _penseur_, et que tout vrai _penseur_ est nécessairement artiste et poëte, c'est une prétention insoutenable et que dément à chaque instant la réalité."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Logically, his attitude as 'thinker' is unimpressive. It is the attitude, as I think some one has pointed out, of acquiescence with codified morality. In one of his _Causeries_, the keen French critic quoted above has a remark upon the great Bossuet, which may with singular aptness be repeated of Browning:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His is the Hebrew genius extended, fecundated by Christianity, and open to all the acquisitions of the understanding, but retaining some degree of sovereign interdiction, and closing its vast horizon precisely where its light ceases. Browning cannot, or will not, face the problem of the future except from the basis of assured continuity of individual existence. He is so much in love with life, for life's sake, that he cannot even credit the possibility of incontinuity; his assurance of eternity in another world is at least in part due to his despair at not being eternal in this. He is so sure, that the intellectually scrupulous detect the odours of hypotheses amid the sweet savour of indestructible assurance. Schopenhauer says, in one of those recently-found Annotations of his which are so characteristic and so acute,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Browning would sometimes have us accept the evidence of his 'cane' as all-sufficient. He does not entrench himself among conventions: for he already finds himself within the fortified lines of convention, and remains there. Thus is true what Mr. Mortimer says in a recent admirable critique--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His position in regard to the thought of the age is paradoxical, if not inconsistent. He is in advance of it in every respect but one, the most important of all, the matter of fundamental principles; in these he is behind it. His processes of thought are often scientific in their precision of analysis; the sudden conclusion which he imposes upon them is transcendental and inept."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The final inductive hazard he declines for himself; his readers may take it if they will. It is part of the insistent and perverse ingenuity which we display in masking with illusion the more disturbing elements of life. Veil after veil is torn down, but seldom before another has been slipped behind it, until we acquiesce without a murmur in the concealment that we ourselves have made. Two facts thus carefully shrouded from full vision by elaborate illusion conspicuously round in our lives--the life-giving and life-destroying elements, Sex and Death. We are compelled to occasional physiologic and economic discussion of the one, but we shrink from recognising the full extent to which it bases the whole social fabric carefully concealing its insurrections, and ignoring or misreading their lessons. The other, in certain aspects, we are compelled to face, but to do it we tipple on illusions, from our cradle upwards, in dread of the coming grave, purchasing a drug for our poltroonery at the expense of our sanity. We uphold our wayward steps with the promises and the commandments for crutches, but on either side of us trudge the shadow Death and the bacchanal Sex, and we mumble prayers against the one, while we scourge ourselves for leering at the other. On one only of these can Browning be said to have spoken with novel force--the relations of sex, which he has treated with a subtlety and freedom, and often with a beauty, unapproached since Goethe. On the problem of Death, except in masquerade of robes and wings, his eupeptic temperament never allowed him to dwell. He sentimentalised where Shakspere thought. Browning's whole attitude to the Hereafter is different from that of Tennyson only in that the latter 'faintly,' while he strenuously,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "High-hearted surely he; But bolder they who first off-cast Their moorings from the habitable Past."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "in _mass_ of imperishable work, in that far-off day, I for one cannot credit. His poetic shortcomings seem too essential to permit of this. That fatal excess of cold over emotive thought, of thought that, however profound, incisive, or scrupulously clear, is not yet impassioned, is a fundamental defect of his. It is the very impetuosity of this mental energy to which is due the miscalled obscurity of much of Browning's work--miscalled, because, however remote in his allusions, however pedantic even, he is never obscure in his thought. His is that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But mere excess in itself is nothing more than symptomatic. Browning has suffered more from intellectual exploitation than any writer. It is a ruinous process--for the poet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He so well repays intelligent study. That is it, unfortunately. There are many, like the old Scotch lady who attempted to read Carlyle's _French Revolution_, who think they have become"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rivals, who ... Tuned, from Bocafoli's stark-naked psalms, To Plara's sonnets spoilt by toying with, 'As knops that stud some almug to the pith 'Prickèd for gum, wry thence, and crinkled worse 'Than pursèd eyelids of a river-horse 'Sunning himself o' the slime when whirrs the breeze-- _Gad-fly,_ that is."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would even that indomitable student have said to the above quotation, and to the poem whence it comes? To many it is not the poetry, but the difficulties, that are the attraction. They rejoice, after long and frequent dippings, to find their plummet, almost lost in remote depths, touch bottom. Enough 'meaning' has been educed from 'Childe Roland,' to cite but one instance, to start a School of Philosophy with: though it so happens that the poem is an imaginative fantasy, written in one day. Worse still, it was not inspired by the mystery of existence, but by 'a red horse with a glaring eye standing behind a dun one on a piece of tapestry that used to hang in the poet's drawing-room.'[28] Of all his faults, however, the worst is that jugglery, that inferior legerdemain, with the elements of the beautiful in verse: most obvious in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sordello, in portions of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book, and in so many of the later poems. These inexcusable violations are like the larvæ within certain vegetable growths: soon or late they will destroy their environment before they perish themselves. Though possessive above all others of that science of the percipient in the allied arts of painting and music, wherein he found the unconventional Shelley so missuaded by convention, he seemed ever more alert to the substance than to the manner of poetry. In a letter of Mrs. Browning's she alludes to a friend's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for poetry. Possibly the phrase was accidental, but it is significant. To inhale the vital air of poetry we must love it, not merely find it"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ": in a word, we must have a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for poetry before we can deeply enjoy it. Browning, who has so often educed from his lyre melodies and harmonies of transcendent, though novel, beauty, was too frequently, during composition, without this melodious feeling of which his wife speaks. The distinction between literary types such as Browning or Balzac on the one hand, and Keats or Gustave Flaubert on the other, is that with the former there exists a reverence for the vocation and a relative indifference to the means, in themselves--and, with the latter, a scrupulous respect for the mere means as well as for that to which they conduce. The poet who does not love words for themselves, as an artist loves any chance colour upon his palette, or as the musician any vagrant tone evoked by a sudden touch in idleness or reverie, has not entered into the full inheritance of the sons of Apollo. The writer cannot aim at beauty, that which makes literature and art, without this heed--without, rather, this creative anxiety: for it is certainly not enough, as some one has said, that language should be used merely for the transportation of intelligence, as a wheelbarrow carries brick. Of course, Browning is not persistently neglectful of this fundamental necessity for the literary artist. He is often as masterly in this as in other respects. But he is not always, not often enough, alive to the paramount need. He writes with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but, unfortunately, the mood is often poetically unformative. He had no passion for the quest for seductive forms. Too much of his poetry has been born prematurely. Too much of it, indeed, has not died and been born again--for all immortal verse is a poetic resurrection. Perfect poetry is the deathless part of mortal beauty. The great artists never perpetuate gross actualities, though they are the supreme realists. It is Schiller, I think, who says in effect, that to live again in the serene beauty of art, it is needful that things should first die in reality. Thus Browning's dramatic method, even, is sometimes disastrous in its untruth, as in Caliban's analytical reasoning--an initial absurdity, as Mr. Berdoe has pointed out, adding epigrammatically, 'Caliban is a savage, with the introspective powers of a Hamlet, and the theology of an evangelical Churchman.' Not only Caliban, but several other of Browning's personages (Aprile, Eglamour, etc.) are what Goethe calls _schwankende Gestalten_, mere"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Return of the Druses was written in five days, an act a day; so, also, was the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blot on the 'Scutcheon."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Assuredly, no"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bid shine what would, dismiss into the shade What should not be--and there triumphs the paramount Surprise o' the master."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gregory VII.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He owes it all to his Memnonian voice! He has no genius: or of declaring, as Prospero says of Caliban in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Tempest,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is as disproportioned in his manners as in his shape: how much better to affirm of him what Ben Jonson wrote of Shakspere,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hee redeemed his vices with his vertues: there was ever more in him to bee praysed than to bee pardoned."
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gold as it was, is, shall be evermore; Prime nature with an added artistry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hope hard in the subtle thing that's Spirit, he cries in the Prologue to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pacchiarotto : and this, in manifold phrasing, is his _leit-motif_, his fundamental idea, in unbroken line from the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline of his twenty-first to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Asolando"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The development of a soul: little else is worth study, he wrote in his preface to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sordello : so in his old age, in his last"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reverie"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As the record from youth to age Of my own, the single soul-- So the world's wide book: one page Deciphered explains the whole Of our common heritage."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Speed, fight on, fare ever There as here! are the last words of this brave soul. In truth,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sun-treader--life and light be thine for ever; Thou art gone from us--years go by--and spring Gladdens, and the young earth is beautiful, Yet thy songs come not--other bards arise, But none like thee--they stand--thy majesties, Like mighty works which tell some Spirit there Hath sat regardless of neglect and scorn, Till, its long task completed, it hath risen And left us, never to return."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Abt Vogler, 130, 172, 202"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Face, 130"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Forgiveness, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After, 130"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Agamemnon of Æschylus, 182"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Grammarian's Funeral, 129, 168"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Likeness, 130 Alma ----, Letter to, 191"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amphibian, 130 Ancona, 150"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Andrea del Sarto, 130, 168"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Andromeda, 25"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Another way of Love, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Any Wife to any Husband, 129, 168"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Pearl, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Apparent Failure, 130, 172"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Appearances, 130 Appearance, Browning's personal, 74, 161 Aprile, 107, 204, 207"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aristophanes' Apology, 182"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ask not one least word of praise, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Asolando, 22, 39, 128, 131, 182, 196, 207, 210 Asolo, 58, 192"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Soul's Tragedy, 89, 91, 179"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Athenæum, The, 73"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Toccata of Galuppi's, 130, 168"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aurora Leigh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Festus, 114"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Balaustion's Adventure, 182, 190 Balzac, 36, 114, 138, 185, 203, 206 Barrett, Arabella, 54, 174 Barrett, Edward, 136 Barrett, Mr., 144, 161, 170"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Beatrice Signorini, 131 Beautiful in Verse, the, 206-7 Beethoven, 209"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before, 130"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bells and Pomegranates, 76, 81, 138"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ben Karshook's Wisdom, 167 Berdoe, E., 68, 204, 207"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bifurcations, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bishop Blougram, 93, 179 Blake, William, 94"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blot on the 'Scutcheon, A, 79, 88, 89, 90, 91, 206 Bossuet and Browning, 191 Browning, Clara, 21 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Browning's early influence on, 92; born March 4, 1809, 136; her girlhood and early work, 136; death of brother, 136; residence in London, 137;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cry of the Children, 137; friendships with Horne and Kenyon, 137; her appreciation of Browning's poems, 138; correspondence with him, 138; engagement, 139; acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson, 143; marriage, 145; Mr. Barrett's resentment, 144; journey to Paris, 145; thence to Pisa, 146; Browning's love for his wife, 146;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sonnets from the Portuguese, 147; in spring to Florence, 150; to Ancona, _via_ Ravenna, in June, 150; winter at Casa Guidi, 152;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aurora Leigh, 152; description of poetess, 153, 154; birth of son in 1849, 157;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Casa Guidi Windows, 159; 1850, spring in Rome; proposal to confer poet-laureateship on Mrs. Browning, 159, 161; 1851, visits England, 161; winter in Paris, 162; she is enthusiastic about Napoleon III. and interested in Spiritualism; summer in London, 162; autumn at Casa Guidi, 162; winter 1853-4 in Rome, 1856"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aurora Leigh, death of Kenyon, legacies, 170; 1857, death of Mr. Barrett, 170; 1858, delicacy of Mrs. Browning, 171; July 1858, Brownings travel to Normandy;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two Poems by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, 1854, 173; 1860,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poems before Congress, and death of Arabella Barrett, 160;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "North and South, 174; return to Casa Guidi, and death on 28th June 1861, 175, 206 Browning, Reuben, 18, 19, 20 Browning, Robert: born in London in 1812, 11, 13, 19; his literary and artistic antecedents and contemporaries, 12-14; his parentage and ancestry, 15, 17-19; concerning traces of Semitic origin, 15-19; his sisters, 20; his father, 18; his mother, 20, 23; his uncle, Reuben Browning, 20; the Camberwell home, 23; his childhood, 22; early poems, 25; translation of the odes of Horace, 26; goes to school at Peckham, 27; his holiday afternoons, 27;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Death of Harold, 29; criticisms of Miss Flower and Mr. Fox, 30; he reads Shelley's and Keats's poems, 30, 31; he has a tutor, 33; attends Gower Street University College, 34; he decides to be a poet, 35; writes"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pauline, 1832, 36; it is published in 1833, 39;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pauline, 39-49; criticisms thereon, 49; Rossetti and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pauline, studies at British Museum, 52, 53; travels in 1833 to Russia, 57; to Italy, 58; return to Camberwell, 1834, 58, and begins"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paracelsus, sonnet signed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Z, 1834, 60; love for Venice, 62;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paracelsus, 59, 62; criticisms thereon, 71, 73; he meets Macready, 73;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Narses, 76; he meets Talfourd, Wordsworth, Landor, 77;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strafford, 79; his dramas, 85; his love of the country, 95;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pippa Passes, 96, 98;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sordello, 105; origin of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ring and the Book, 1865;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book, 113-119;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Inn Album, 127;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men and Women, 128; proposed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Transcripts from Life, 129;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flower o' the Vine, 131; correspondence between him and Miss Barrett, 136; meeting in 1846, 138; engagement, 140; marriage, 12th September 1846, 145; sojourn in Pisa, 146; they go to Florence, 148; to Ancona, _via_ Ravenna, 150;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Guardian Angel, 150; Casa Guidi, 152; birth of son, March 9th, 1849, 157; they go to Vallombrosa and Bagni di Lucca for the autumn, and winter at Casa Guidi, 156; spring of 1850 in Rome, 159;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two in the Campagna, 156; 1851, they visit England; description of Browning, 161; winter 1851-2 in Paris with Robert Browning, senior, 162; Browning writes Prefatory Essay to Moxon's edition of Shelley's Letters, 163; midsummer, Baths of Lucca, 165; in Florence, 166;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a Balcony, 166; winter in Rome, 1853-4, 166; the work written there, 167;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ben Karshook's Wisdom, 167;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men and Women published, 168; Kenyon's death, and legacies to the Brownings, 170; poems written between 1855-64, 169; July 1858, Brownings go to Normandy, 173;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Legend of Pornic,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gold Hair, 173; autumn of 1859 in Sienna; winter 1860-61 in Rome, 173; death of Mrs. Browning, June 1861, 175;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prospice, 176; 1866, Browning loses his father; Miss Sarianna resides with Browning, 177; his ways of life, 177; first collected edition of his works, 1868, 178; first part of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Ring and the Book published, 178;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hervé Riel, 179; Tauchnitz edition, 1872, 179;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bishop Blougram, 179;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Selections, 180;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Saisiaz, 1877, 180;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Two Poets of Croisic, 181; later works, 182;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Cotton Nightcap Country, 182, 183;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fifine at the Fair, 183, 184, 185-7;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jocoseria, 187; 1881, Browning Society established, 188; his latter years, 189; revisits Asolo, 191; Palazzo Rezzonico, 192; religious belief, 193; death, December 12th, 1889, 195, 196; funeral, 197; to be estimated by a new definition, 200; as poet, rather than as thinker, 200; his love of life, 201; his, like Bossuet's, a Hebrew genius fecundated by Christianity, 201; his artistic relations to Death and Sex, 201-3; where, in standpoint, he differs from Tennyson, 203; as to quality of his _mass_ of work, 204; intellectually exploited, 204; his difficulties, and their attraction to many, 205; his attitude to the future, influence, and significance, 205-211; summary of his life-work, 200-212. Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett, 18, 37, 157, 163, 174 Browning, Robert (senior), 18, 20, 32, 33, 37, 38, 159, 173 Browning, Sarianna (Mrs.), 21, 25, 29, 32 Browning, Sarianna (Miss), 20, 177, 188 Browning Society, the, 160, 188 Browning, William Shergold, 18 Byron, 149"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By the Fireside,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Caliban upon Setebos, 172, 207, 209 Camberwell, 20, 27, 33, 38, 54, 58, 61 Carlyle, Thomas, 80, 105, 110, 115, 202, 204 Casa Guidi, 120, 152, 154, 163, 166, 174"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cavalier-Tunes, 129"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Childe Roland, 203, 205 Chopin, 209"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Christmas Eve and Easter-Day, 159, 179"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cleon, 130 Coleridge, 208"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Colombe's Birthday, 89-91"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confessional, The, 129"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Confessions, 130 Contemporaries, literary and artistic, of Browning, 12-14 Conway, Moncure, 15, 193 Cristina, 129"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cristina and Manaldeschi,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Death of Harold, 29"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Death in the Desert, A, 129, 172 Defoe, 198"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "De Gustibus, 57, 59, 130 Dickens, Charles, 54, 90"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dîs Aliter Visum, 130, 172 Domett, A. (Waring), 151 Dramas, Browning's, 82-92"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dramatic Idyls, 57, 182"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dramatic Romances, 128, 179"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dramatis Personæ,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Earth's Immortalities, 129"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Echetlos, 130 Epics, series of monodramatic, 36 Equator of Browning's genius, the, 178"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evelyn Hope,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ferishtah's Fancies, 182"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fifine at the Fair, 110, 130, 182, 184-7 Flaubert, Gustave, 206"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Flight of the Duchess, 27, 129"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flower's Name, The, 129, 167 _Flower o' the Vine_, 131 Flower, Miss Sarah (afterwards Adams), 30, 52 Form, Artistic, 206-9 Forster, John, 50, 73, 76 Fox, Mrs. Bridell, 59 Fox, Rev. William Johnson, 30, 50, 51, 52, 54, 73"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fra Lippo Lippi,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gold Hair, 172, 173 Gordon, General, 69 Gosse, E.W., 81"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grammarian's Funeral, A, 129, 168"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guardian Angel, The,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Halburt and Hob, 130 Hawthorne, N., 154-5, 171"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heap Cassia, etc., 71 Heine, 57, 165"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heretic's Tragedy, The, 129"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hervé Riel, 130, 179 Hillard, G.S., 154-6"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Holy Cross Day, 167"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Home Thoughts from Abroad, 57, 129, 157, 189"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Home Thoughts from the Sea, 57, 129, 189 Hood, Thomas, 167 Horne, R.H., 137, 138, 150, 152, 206, 209 Houghton, Lord, 167"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How they brought the Good News,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Imperante Augusto, 131"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a Balcony, 88, 166, 167, 168, 179"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a Gondola, 129"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inapprehensiveness, 131"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In a Year, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inn Album, The, 70, 101, 113, 127, 182"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Instans Tyrannus, 26"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Italian in England, The, 58 Italian Art, Music, etc.--Influence of, on Browning, 58 Italy, first visit to, 56-7"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ivàn Ivànovitch, 57, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ixion,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "James Lee's Wife, 59, 130, 172 Jerrold, Douglas, 109"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jocoseria, 130, 182, 187"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Johannes Agricola,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Victor and King Charles,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lady and the Painter, The, 131 Lamartine on Bossuet, 191 Landor, W.S., 77-9, 92"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Saisiaz, 130, 180"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Last Ride Together, The, 130 Le Croisie, 178 Lehmann's, Rudolf, portrait of Browning, 16, 17 _Leit-Motif_, Browning's, 210 Letter to a Girl Friend, 191"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life in a Love, 130"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Light Woman, A, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lost Leader, The, 78, 129"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Love among the Ruins, 129, 166, 168"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love in a Life, 130"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lover's Quarrel, A, 129 Lowell, J.R., 142"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Luria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Magical Nature, 130 Manner, Browning's, 211 Marlowe, 114"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli, 130"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha, 130, 168"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May and Death, 130 Mazzini, 58"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Meeting at Night, 129, 158"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Memorabilia, 130, 166"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men and Women, 127-136, 166, 168, 169, 171, 178, 179, 182 Meredith, George, 123, 124, 186, 198 Meynell, Wilfrid, 191 Montaigne, 207 Mortimer, 201-2 Motive, Browning's fundamental poetic, 210 Mill, John Stuart, 51 Milsand, J., 111 Milton, 49, 92, 133, 198"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Misconceptions, 130 Mitford, Mary, 78"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Muléykeh, 130 Murray, Alma, 188 Music of Browning's verse, 205-10"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Last Duchess, 129"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My Star,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Narses, 76"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Natural Magic, 120 Nature, Browning's observation of, 96 Nettleship, J., 75, 107"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never the Time and the Place, 130, 188 Newman, Cardinal, 194 _New Spirit of the Age_, 138 Normandy, the Brownings in, 173"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, 131"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Numpholeptos,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Pictures in Florence, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Lyric Love, 121, 130, 177"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One Way of Love, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One Word More, 169, 177 Optimism, Browning's, 24 (and _vide_ Summary) Orion, new star in, 198 Orr, Mrs. Sutherland, 18, 98, 111, 184 Orthodoxy, Browning's, 193"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Over the seas our galleys went,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pacchiarotto, 128-30, 165, 182, 207, 210 Palazzo Rezzonico, 192"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pan and Luna, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paracelsus, 50, 58, 60-72, 85, 106, 107 Paris, the Brownings in, 162"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Parleyings, 182"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parting at Morning, 158 Pater, Walter, 88"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pauline, 25, 32, 36, 38-48, 51-54, 85, 128, 208, 210"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pheidippides, 130"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pictor Ignotus, 129"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pied Piper of Hamelin, 75, 129, 179"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pippa Passes, 24, 32, 45, 58, 59, 70, 92, 95-104, 113 Pisa, 146"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pisgah Sights, 130 Plato, 95 Poe, E.A., 207 Poems, Early, 25, 26, 27, 28, 71"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poetical Works, 178"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poetics, 131 Pompilia, 58, 122-125"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pope, The, 126"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Popularity, 72"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Porphyria, 59, 66 Portraits of Browning, 16, 17, 53"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty Woman, A, 130 Primary importance, Browning's, 134"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, 165, 182, 183 Profundity, Browning's, 94"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prospice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Red Cotton Nightcap Country, 110, 182-3 Religious Opinions, 193, etc."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rephan, 131"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Return of the Druses, The, 37, 89-91, 206"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reverie, 131, 207, 210 Richmond, 38"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ring and the Book, The, 39, 101, 113-128, 177, 182, 203, 205, 210 Romance, Browning and, 105 Rome, the Brownings in, 159, 166 Roscoe, W.C., 70"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rosny, 131 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 52-3, 55, 104"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Round of Day, The,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Saul, 129, 167, 168 Schiller, 207 School, Peckham, 27, 33 Schopenhauer, 209, 210 Shortcomings, Browning's artistic, 205 Science, Browning and, 68 Scott, David, 14 Scott, Sir W., 198"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Serenade at the Villa, 130 Sex, Browning's artistic relation to, 202 Shakspere, 36, 85-8, 93, 114, 206, 208, 209, 210 Shelley, 30, 43, 136, 146, 149, 164-5, 172, 196, 203, 205, 209 Shelley Letters, the, 163"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis, 143, 167 Skelton, John, 90"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sludge the Medium, 94, 165 _Songs_--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay but you, 129;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Round us the wild creatures, 130;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once I saw, 130;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Man I am, 130;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You groped your way, 130;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wish me no wish unspoken, 130 Sonnets, Browning's, 58"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sonnets from the Portuguese, 147, 148"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sordello, 37, 58, 63, 79, 85, 89, 91, 92, 105-12, 203, 205, 210 Soul, Browning and the, 210-11"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Soul's Tragedy, A, 89, 91, 179"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Speculative, 131 Spiritual influence, Browning's, 200"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "St. Martin's Summer, 130 Story, W.W., 154, 171, 192"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strafford,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Statue and the Bust, 173"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Tomb at St. Praxed's, 129, 143"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a woman like a Dew-drop, 192 Thinker, Browning as, 200"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr, 129"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tokay, 167"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too Late, 130"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Touch him ne'er so lightly, 130 Tour-de-force, Poetry and, 115 _Transcripts from Life_, 129-131 Traill, H.D., 209"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Two in the Campagna, 130, 159, 160"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two Poets of Croisic,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Verse-making,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What of the Leafage, etc., 188"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why from the World, 130 Wiedemann, Mr., 18"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woman's Last Word, A, 129 Women, Browning's, 66"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Women and Roses,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Youth and Art,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Z"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Official Guide of the Chicago and Alton R.R. and Monthly Reprint and Advertiser."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors."
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alcestis"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London, by Elizabeth B. Browning, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Twins, by Robert Browning, were printed by Miss Arabella Barrett, for a bazaar in aid of a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Refuge for Young Destitute Girls."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Twins was reprinted in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Men and Women,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eyes, calm beside thee, (Lady couldst thou know! ) Dated August 17, 1834; signed"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Z."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A King lived long ago. Signed"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Z."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The rain set early in to-night. Signed"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Z."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's Heaven above; and night by night. Signed"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Z. (_Monthly Repository_, vol. 10 N.S., 1836, pp. 45, 46.) _Porphyria_ and _Johannes Agricola_ were reprinted in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bells and Pomegranates,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still ailing, wind? Wilt be appeased or no? Signed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Z. (_Monthly Repository_, vol. 10 N.S., 1836, pp. 270, 271.) Reprinted revised, in _Dramatis Personae_, 1884, as the first six stanzas of VI. of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "James Lee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "France and England."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh Love, Love:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Blind Man to the Maiden said."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Touch him ne'er so lightly."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Venice, Nov. 27, 1883"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "April 26, 1870."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "April 5, 1884."
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Names. Sonnet on Shakespeare. Contributed to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shaksperian Show-Book"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dec. 10, 1887."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I chanced upon a new book yesterday. 12 lines, dated"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "July 8, 1889"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Craven Cottage, Saturday."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bagni di Lucea, Sept. 21, 1849."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bagni di Lucca, 6th Oct., 1857"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nov. 20. On line 131,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De"
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Accompanied by a presentation copy of the 3rd vol. of the new collective edition of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poems."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Browning's Message to his Time,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Robert Browning,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Collection of British and American Standard Authors."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Victorian Poets."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Platform Series."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ring and the Book"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aristophanes' Apology."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Cock and the Bull,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Studies in Literature, 1878, pp. 191-239. Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. London, 1878, 8vo. Mr. Browning's place in recent literature, pp. 80-84; Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning, pp. 191-239. Transcripts and Studies. London, 1888, 8vo. Mr. Browning's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sordello,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Lyric Love."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Death in the Desert."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bishop Blougram's Apology. (Read at the 7th meeting of the Browning Society, May 26, 1882.) London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. iii., pp. 279-292. Conscience and Art in Browning. London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. iii., pp. 345-379. On"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Sludge the Medium."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Robert Browning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Christmas Eve, pp. 195-217. The Imagination and other Essays. Boston [1883], 8vo. Browning's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christmas Eve,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Caliban upon Setebos,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fifine at the Fair."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Childe Roland,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Scott _v_. Shepherd (1 _Sm. L.C._ 477), Any Pleader to any Student,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pietro of Abano and the leading ideas of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dramatic Idyls."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Saul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Essay on George Chapman's poetical and dramatic works."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book. (Read at the 19th Meeting of the Browning Society, Oct. 26, 1883.) London, 1884, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. v., pp. 85-92."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strafford"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Campaigner at Home,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Detachment"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ring and the Book."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Literary Studies"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came. Respectability. A Light Woman. The Statue and the Bust. Love in a Life. Life in a Love. How it strikes a Contemporary. The Last Ride Together. The Patriot. Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha. Bishop Blougram's Apology. Memorabilia. Vol. II. Andrea del Sarto. Before. After. In Three Days. In a Year. Old Pictures in Florence. In a Balcony. Saul."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "De Gustibus ---- Women and Roses. Protus. Holy-Cross Day. The Guardian-Angel. Cleon. The Twins. Popularity. The Heretic's Tragedy. Two in the Campagna. A Grammarian's Funeral. One Way of Love. Another Way of Love."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Transcendentalism."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mermaid."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Imperante Augusto natus est ----"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Set,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of the very few hooks on art that painters and critics should on no account leave unread this is surely one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His book is one of the best books about pictures that have come into our hands for some years."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there is an art critic who knows exactly what he means and says it with exemplary lucidity, it is 'G.M.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A more original, a better informed, a more suggestive, and let us add, a more amusing work on the art of to-day, we have never read than this volume."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impressionism, to use that word, in the absence of any fitter one,--the impressionism which makes his own writing on art in this volume so effective, is, in short, the secret both of his likes and dislikes, his hatred of what he thinks conventional and mechanic, together with his very alert and careful evaluation of what comes home to him as straightforward, whether in Reynolds, or Rubens, or Ruysdael, in Japan, in Paris, or in modern England."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As an art critic Mr. George Moore certainly has some signal advantages. He is never dull, he is frankly personal, he is untroubled by tradition."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Moore, in spite of the impediments that he puts in the way of his own effectiveness, is one of the most competent writers on painting that we have."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His [Mr. Moore's] book is one that cannot fail to be much talked about; and everyone who is interested in modern painting will do well to make acquaintance with its views."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As everybody knows by this time, Mr. Moore is a person of strong opinions and strong dislikes, and has the gift of expressing both in pungent language."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of his [Mr. Moore's] sincerity, of his courage, and of his candour there can be no doubt.... One of the most interesting writers on art that we have."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Week."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hyperion,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kavanagh, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Trouveres."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Athenian Oracle."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Morte d'Arthur. Edited by Ernest Rhys. [This, together with No. 1, forms the complete"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Morte d'Arthur."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A DOLL'S HOUSE,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "GHOSTS,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE WILD DUCK."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LADY INGER OF OSTRAT,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE VIKINGS AT HELGELAND,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE PRETENDERS."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "EMPEROR AND GALILEAN."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ROSMERSHOLM,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE LADY FROM THE SEA,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HEDDA GABLER."
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Great Tone Poets,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Verdi: Man and Musician ; Editor of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Master Musicians Series,"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Schools and Methods of English Art."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This little volume may rank as the most complete account of Landseer that the world is likely to possess."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To the series entitled 'The Makers of British Art' Miss Elsa d'Esterre-Keeling contributes an admirable little volume on Sir Joshua Reynolds. Miss Keeling's style is sprightly and epigrammatic, and her judgments are well considered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Life and Paintings of Vicat Cole, R.A."
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Power of Womanhood."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Songs for Little People,"
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The BURNS. Poems } Auld Brig o' Doon. KEATS. With Portrait of Keats. EMERSON. With Portrait of Emerson. SONNETS OF THIS CENTURY. Portrait of P. B. Marston. WHITMAN. With Portrait of Whitman. LOVE LETTERS OF A VIOLINIST. Portrait of Eric Mackay. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, etc. } With Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, and SCOTT. Marmion, etc. } View of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Silver Strand, Loch Katrine. CHILDREN OF THE POETS. With an Engraving of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Orphans, by Gainsborough. SONNETS OF EUROPE. With Portrait of J. A. Symonds. SYDNEY DOBELL. With Portrait of Sydney Dobell. HERRICK. With Portrait of Herrick. BALLADS AND RONDEAUS. Portrait of W. E. Henley. IRISH MINSTRELSY. With Portrait of Thomas Davis. PARADISE LOST. With Portrait of Milton. FAIRY MUSIC. Engraving from Drawing by C. E. Brock. GOLDEN TREASURY. With Engraving of Virgin Mother. AMERICAN SONNETS. With Portrait of J. R. Lowell. IMITATION OF CHRIST. With Engraving,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ecce Homo. PAINTER POETS. With Portrait of Walter Crane. WOMEN POETS. With Portrait of Mrs. Browning. POEMS OF HON. RODEN NOEL. Portrait of Hon. R. Noel. AMERICAN HUMOROUS VERSE. Portrait of Mark Twain. SONGS OF FREEDOM. With Portrait of William Morris. SCOTTISH MINOR POETS. With Portrait of R. Tannahill. CONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH VERSE. With Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson. PARADISE REGAINED. With Portrait of Milton. CAVALIER POETS. With Portrait of Suckling. HUMOROUS POEMS. With Portrait of Hood. HERBERT. With Portrait of Herbert. POE. With Portrait of Poe. OWEN MEREDITH. With Portrait of late Lord Lytton. LOVE LYRICS. With Portrait of Raleigh. GERMAN BALLADS. With Portrait of Schiller. CAMPBELL. With Portrait of Campbell. CANADIAN POEMS. With View of Mount Stephen. EARLY ENGLISH POETRY. With Portrait of Earl of Surrey. ALLAN RAMSAY. With Portrait of Ramsay. SPENSER. With Portrait of Spenser. CHATTERTON. With Engraving,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Death of Chatterton."
}
]
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14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE MAKERS OF BRITISH ART."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Great Tone Poets,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Music Story Series"
}
]
|
14476 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Talks with Bandsmen. THE STORY OF HARMONY. BY EUSTACE J. BREAKSPEARE, Author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mozart,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Musical Æsthetics, etc. THE STORY OF THE ORGAN. BY C.F. ABDY WILLIAMS, Author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bach and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Handel ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Master Musicians Series ). THE STORY OF THE ORCHESTRA. BY STEWART MACPHERSON, Fellow and Professor, Royal Academy of Music; Conductor of the Westminster Orchestral Society. THE STORY OF CHAMBER MUSIC. BY N. KILBURN, MUS. BAC. (Cantab.), Conductor of the Middlesbrough, Sunderland, and Bishop Auckland Musical Societies. THE STORY OF BIBLE MUSIC. BY ELEONORE D'ESTERRE-KEELING, Author of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Musicians' Birthday Book."
}
]
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