 The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.  The Twentieth Century - Page 6221901Full view - About this book
 | William G. Kingsland - 1890 - 160 pages
...must — like ; but after all, I imagined another thing at first, and therefore leave as I find it. The historical decoration was purposely of no more...development of a soul : little else is worth study. I, at least, always thought so, — you, with many known and unknown to me, think so, — others may... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...must — like : but, after all, I imagined another thing at first, and therefoi'e leave as I find it. The historical decoration was purposely of no more...importance than a background requires ; and my stress lay 011 the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study. I, at least, always thought... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...merely to show us these men and women. He has shown them to us in the crises of their histories. " My stress lay on the incidents in the development " of a soul : little else is worth study," he says in his preface to Bordello. " The soul itself, " Its shifting fancies and celestial lights,... | |
 | William Sharp - 1890 - 260 pages
...one thing pertinent to it shall survive : the memorable sentence in the dedicatory preface — •" My stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul : little else is worth study." The poem has disastrous faults, but is a magnificent failure. " Vast as night," to borrow a simile... | |
 | John Trivett Nettleship - 1890 - 490 pages
...farthest ebb. When Browning himself says in his dedication to Sordello (dated twenty-seven years back), ' my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul ; little else is worth study,' we may at first sight take it that he has set himself that vast field to cultivate, and only that ;... | |
 | John Trivett Nettleship - 1890 - 478 pages
...not, is of importance to him so far as it illustrates or enforces his main theme. But when he adds ' the historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires,' he does himself either more or less than justice in respect of the poem as a whole. For the wealth... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs - 1891 - 192 pages
...themes of Hamelin and Ghent — which were outside his ordinary range of interest, wide as that was. ' My stress lay on the incidents in the ' development of a soul ; little else is worth ' study.' These words from the dedication to the reprint of Sordello — itself the key to all Browning's more... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - 1891 - 386 pages
...else in the world of any deep concern. " My stress lay," he said in his preface to Sordello (1863), " on the incidents in the development of a soul : little else is worth study. I, at least, always thought so — you, with many known and unknown to me, think so — others may... | |
 | 1903 - 548 pages
...POETRY. IN the few lines "To J. Milsand of Dijon" that serve as preface to "Sordello," Browning wrote: "My stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study." A better statement of the controlling principle of all his poetry could hardly be made. In the history... | |
 | Christabel Rose Coleridge - 1892 - 362 pages
...BY CHRISTABEL R. COLERIDGE AUTHOR OF<~'S<:LADY BETTY, JACK O1 LANTHORN, AN ENGLISH SQUIRE, ETC. *' My stress lay on the incidents in the development of a Soul : little else is worth study." Note to SorJello, by ROBERT BROWNING. NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1892 Authorized Edition. PART... | |
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