ABSTRACT
There are in Mr. Browning’s writings vigour, force of character, and passionate strength; but unhappily few of them are adapted to the popular apprehension. They are not easily read in the boudoir, where the perusal of Moore and Rogers is the highest exertion of intellect. Indeed, with some striking merits which will give them influence in the formation of the taste of another generation, they are deformed by so many novelties of construction, and affectations of various kinds, that few will have patience to wade through his marshes to cull the flowers with which they are scattered.
