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I had yesterday, as I anticipated, the pleasure of making your new Poet’s acquaintance, and from what I saw of him—I am induced to form a very high opinion of him. He is full of genius. In appearance he might pass for a son of Paganini,1 and Maclise2 and I must hide our diminished heads before his super-abundant black locks — while even your whiskers, improved as they are by the salt water, are insignificant compared with his lion-like ruff. But this is absurd — and, as absurdity is the farthest thing removed from Mr Browning, I ought not connect anything of the kind with him.
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Ainsworth, W.H. (2000). Browning’s ‘lion-like ruff’. In: Garrett, M. (eds) Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62894-0_24
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