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Frederick Tennyson, the Laureate's brother, and himself a true poet in his degree, "a dreamy, shy, speculative man," simple withal and truthful, had married an Italian wife and was settled for a time in Florence. To him Browning became attached with genuine affection.
Ramsay and Fergusson excelled at making a popular or shall we say vulgar? sort of society verses, comical and prosaic, written, you would say, in taverns while a supper-party waited for its laureate's word; but on the appearance of Burns, this coarse and laughing literature was touched to finer issues, and learned gravity of thought and natural pathos.
He sits and watches her, and thinks of the laureate's lines: "A man had given all other bliss And all his worldly worth for this, To wast his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips." "Am I too late?" he thought; "does she love her cousin? Is it as his sister hints; or " His jealous, anxious eyes never left her. She saw it all.
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