human
The first composition I ever was guilty of, he wrote to Elizabeth Barrett (Aug. 25, 1846),
gpt
And long afterwards Ossian was
human
(ib.) These
gpt
were apparently in verse, and in rhyme; and Browning's bent and faculty for both was very early pronounced.
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I never can recollect not writing rhymes; ... but I knew they were nonsense even then. And a well-known anecdote of his infancy describes his exhibition of a lively sense of metre in verses which he recited with emphatic accompaniments upon the edge of the dining-room table before he was tall enough to look over it. The crowding thoughts of his maturity had not yet supervened to prevent the abundant music that he
gpt
from
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It is not surprising that a boy of these proclivities was captivated by the stormy swing and sweep of Byron; nor that he should have caught also something of his
gpt
and even, a little later, a reflection, respectable and suburban enough, of his rebellious Titanism. The less so, that in Robert's eleventh or twelfth year Byron, the head of the Satanic school, had become the heroic champion of Greek liberation, and was probably spoken of with honour in the home of the large-hearted banker who had in his day suffered so much for the sake of the unemancipated slave. In later years Browning was accustomed to deliver himself of breezy sarcasms at the expense of the
human
who declaimed so eloquently about the
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But it is easy to see that this genial chaff covered a real admiration,--the tribute of one abounding nature to another, which even years and the philosophic mind did not seriously abate.
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I always retained my first feeling for Byron in many respects, he wrote in a significant letter to Miss Barrett in 1846.