This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. COMPLEXITY OF CHARACTER. "Woman's at best a contradiction still." Pope. In "The Legend of Pornic" we find a woman whose character does not interest us because it is developed about love as a central point. We find at least one woman in Browning whose thoughts were as distant as possible ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. COMPLEXITY OF CHARACTER. "Woman's at best a contradiction still." Pope. In "The Legend of Pornic" we find a woman whose character does not interest us because it is developed about love as a central point. We find at least one woman in Browning whose thoughts were as distant as possible from the love of man, as well as from the love of mankind. The girl of Pornic (she was hardly a woman) is portrayed as being too pure for this life as far as people could discern, and hence she was called to blossom in heaven. Her face, which was like a silver wedge amid a yellow wealth of golden hair, was so white and saintly that her survivors passed the sentence that she was meant for heaven and had turned an angel before the time. While she lay on her bed dying as some delicate evening dies, her breath nearly gone, and her friends putting the cross to her lips, a sudden flush came into her cheek and a sparkle of interest into her eyes, and she broke forth into an earnest entreaty that her hair might be left undisturbed. All other possessions might go but that was the last grace she had which was all her own. When this passion was vented she lay dead. Her parents and friends wept without degree as they kissed the white face which was crowned by the great golden hair, curled around the brow, coiled beside her cheek and pressed down flat about her neck and over her breast without a gap until it reached her gown. She was buried beneath the altar, the robe and pall untouched, the friends keeping saintly state out of respect for her pure life and untimely death. Only one frailty could be imputed to her, she knew the worth of her golden hair. In after years when the pavement above her restingplace was taken to pieces for repairs, some boys, who...
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Good. No dust jacket. Good solid book. Cover shows some corner, edge, scuffing and some fading/discoloration. Pages are free of writing and tight with browning & some ruffling wear. Pages are stiff but do not show any cracking. Book is in surprisingly good shape and tight for its age.
