...of a tired worker, the pastime of an idle hour. This Browning has never meant his poetry to be. He never pretended to offer such literature as should be ' a substitute for a cigar or a game at dominoes.' The complexity and rapidity of his thought require sustained effort on the part of the...

...to him by Browning in 1868 on the charge of obscurity. "I can have little doubt that my writing has been in the main too hard for many I should have been...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...

...to him by Browning in 1868 on the charge of obscurity. " I can have little doubt that my writing has been in the main too hard for many I should have been...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...

...following letter from Browning in 1868 is characteristic : ' I can have little doubt that my writing has been in the main too hard for many I should have been...literature as should be a substitute for a cigar or game at dominoes to an idle man. So, perhaps, on the whole, I get my deserts, and something over —...

...print them, and they have been often since quoted :— " I can have little doubt that my writing has been in the main too hard for many I should have been...literature as should be a substitute for a cigar or game at dominoes to an idle man. So, perhaps, on the whole I get my deserts and something over—not...

...of obscurity will doubtless interest American readers : I can have little doubt that my writing has been in the main too hard for many I should have been...literature as should be a substitute for a cigar or game at dominoes to an idle man. So, perhaps, on the whole, I get my deserts and something over —...

...Mr. WG Kingsland, in 1 868,, Mr. Browning says : — " I can have little doubt that my writing has been in the main too hard for many I should have been...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...

...utterance from a poet before Abt Vogler. — REV. J. KIRKMAN. I can have little doubt that my writing has been in the main too hard for many I should have been...literature as should be a substitute for a cigar or a game at dominoes to an idle man. So perhaps, on the whole, I got my deserts and something over — not a...

...— as indeed he has himself said, to much the same effect, in a letter printed many years ago : " I never pretended to offer such literature as should be a substitute for a cigar or a game at dominoes to an idle man." But he has not made anything like such a demand on the reader's faculties...

...FROM EMILY EF SKEEL IN iVKMORY OF SKEEL- JR. OUR PARENTS specimen of penmanship. Browning nrt: '-l never designedly tried to puzzle people- as some of my critics have supposed. On the other band, I never pretended to offer a substitute for a cigar, or a game at dominoes, to an idle man."...