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Browning's unfailing cheer and cordiality of manner were admirable; they were in part spontaneous, in part an acceptance of duty, in part a mode of self-protection; they were only less excellent than the varying moods of a simple and beautiful nature. When La Saisiaz appeared Browning was sixty-six years old.
'Wholly distrust thy reason, he says in 'La Saisiaz. Coleridge's distinction between 'understanding' and 'reason, or Westcott's distinction between 'reason' and 'reasoning, might have saved these great writers from the appearance, and perhaps more than the appearance, of blaspheming against the highest and most divine faculty of human nature.
Mr. Browning's impressionable nervous system was for a moment paralyzed by the shock. It revived in all the emotional and intellectual impulses which gave birth to 'La Saisiaz'. This poem contains, besides its personal reference and association, elements of distinctive biographical interest.
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