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Browning and his century

Helen Archibald Clarke · 1912 · Scanned text · Free in the US

80,031 words · about 5 h 36 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1912, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/12028692); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Helen Archibald Clarke
Language
English
Published
1912
Length
80,031 words · about 5 h 36 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. CHAPTER VII Prophetic Visions ^^^ Vll under 1 min
  3. Prologue about 5 h 36 min
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Front matter

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

BROWNING'S ITALY

BROWNING'S ENGLAND

CHAPTER VII Prophetic Visions ^^^ Vll

ILLUSTRATIONS

Browning at 23 (London 1835) . . . Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

Paracelsus 38^^

Herbert Spencer 94

David Strauss 112''

Cardinal Wiseman 120-^

William Ewart Gladstone 160^

William Morris 196»^

John Burns 208*^

Alfred Tennyson . 250^

A. C. Swinburne 260^

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 266 '^

George Meredith 272*^

Euripides 296*^

Aristophanes 306"^

Walter Savage Landor SSO"^

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