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Excerpt from A Selection From the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: First Series
[t /zas been attempted to retain and to dispose t/ze c/carac teristics of ?u general poetry, wnence tlz is is an abstract, according to an order wnz'cli sbould allow tilem t/ze pro minency and efkct t/zey seem to possess wnen considered in Me larger, not exclusively tbc lesser works of t/ze poet. A musician nnt say, sue/z and suc/z c/zords are repeated, ot/zers made subordinate by distribution, so tilat a single movement may imitate tne progress of tbc wlzole symp/zon y. But t/zere are various ways of modulating up to and connecting any given lzarmonies and it will be neit/zer a sufprise nor a pain to find tnat better could lzave been done, as to bot/z selection and sequence, tlcan, in t/ze present case.
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