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There were only two lines in it that I understood, and they were both lies; they were the opening and closing lines, '_Who will may hear Sordello's story told_,' and '_Who would has heard Sordello's story told!_' Carlyle was equally candid:
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My wife, he writes,
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God gave man two faculties --and adds,
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I wish while He was about it (_pendant qu'il était en train_) God had supplied another--viz., the power of understanding Mr. Browning.
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The Golden Butterfly : how, after
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Fifine at the Fair, frightful symptoms set in, till in despair he took up
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Red Cotton Nightcap Country, and fell for hours into a dull comatose misery.
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His eyes were bloodshot, his hair was pushed in disorder about his head, his cheeks were flushed, his hands were trembling, the nerves in his face were twitching. Then he arose, and solemnly cursed Robert Browning. And then he took all his volumes, and, disposing them carefully in the fireplace, set light to them. 'I wish,' he said, 'that I could put the poet there too.' One other anecdote of the kind was often, with evident humorous appreciation, recounted by the poet. On his introduction to the Chinese Ambassador, as a
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he asked that dignitary what kind of poetic expression he particularly affected. The great man deliberated, and then replied that his poetry might be defined as
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Sordello as a work of art is not disputable. In 1863, Mrs. Orr says, he considered the advisability of
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My own faults of expression were many; but with care for a man or book such would be surmounted, and without it what avails the faultlessness of either? I blame nobody, least of all myself, who did my best then and since.
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Sordello, one thing pertinent to it shall survive: the memorable sentence in the dedicatory preface--
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My stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
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Vast as night,
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Pippa Passes,
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The Ring and the Book,
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The Inn Album,