A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)

by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

The present remarks properly belong to that earlier chapter. But it was difficult to divide them from their illustrations.

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First in "Hood's Magazine."

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I may venture to state that these picturesque materials included a tower which Mr. Browning once saw in the Carrara Mountains, a painting which caught his eye years later in Paris; and the figure of a horse in the tapestry in his own drawing-room—welded together in the remembrance of the line from "King Lear" which forms the heading of the poem.

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Instances of it occur in the "Dramatic Idyls" and "Jocoseria;" and will be noticed later.