o'er-warmly

Updated: May 25, 2025

At the charges of drunkenness, and of yearning "o'er-warmly toward the lasses," Noah and David come severally to his defense. In the end, Burns' great charity is felt to offset all his failings, and Lowell adds, of poets in general, Browning is willing to allow even fictitious artists to be driven into imperfect conduct by the failure of those about them to live up to their standards.

Elizabeth Atkins - The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years