== Cartwright arrived here a fortnight ago -- very pleasant it was to see him: he left for Florenc...
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Hearts would leap otherwise at thy advance, Lady, to whom this Tower is consecrate! Like hers, thy...
and his usual tap of excellent wine. (`Vino del Popolo' he called it.) The `Osteria' had filled; th...
-- == This is my last extract from the correspondence with Miss Blagden. Her death closed it alto...
in substance some years afterwards to another friend: `You are wrong -- quite wrong -- she has geni...
they must have held many reminiscences of galleries and studios, and of the places in which picture...
so many of us regard the mortal remains of those they have loved, or with the solemn or friendly in...
the winter of 1854-5. In all probability Mr. and Mrs. Browning remained in, or as near as possible ...
far more of than I do, and always maintains they are the happiest growth of the French school. Sett...
which implied that the little boy was not of normal size. But the fact is still more unanswerable t...
We stayed a week, as it was, living upon fish and cold water. . . .' == The one dated Florence, De...
`Browning entered. In the middle room, full of all kinds of curious objects of "vertu", stood a han...
== Venice: June 4 (probably '50). `. . . I have been between Heaven and Earth since our arrival at...
under all the quietness, and perhaps by means of it, you are aware of an intense burning soul. She ...
an indirect vindication of the conceptions of human life which `Christmas Eve and Easter Day' conde...