[43] A Grammarian’s Funeral.

[44] Ibid.

[45] Pompilia, 1787.

[46] Life of George Eliot, Cross. Letters to J. Blackwood and J. W. Cross.

[47] La Saisiaz.

[48] Sordello, bk. iv.

[49] Ibid., bk. v.

[50] Ibid., bk. vi.

[51] Cf. St. Matthew, xi, 11.

[52] Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman, by Wilfrid Ward. 2 vols. 1897.

[53] Ibid.

[54] Ibid.

[55] Incident related Browning. G. K. Chesterton. (Eng. Men of Letters.)

[56] Life of Gladstone. J. Morley. Vol. i.

[57] Apologia pro vita sua. J. H. Newman.

[58] Pippa passes, iii, 1210-1215.

[59] Quoted. Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman. W. Ward.

[60] In Memoriam, xcvi.

[61] Browning, Dent and Co., p. 124.

[62] Wisdom of Solomon, xi, 24-26.

[63] Confessions, bk. i, chap. iii.

[64] Chapter ii, 14-20.

[65] Godminster Chimes. J. R. Lowell.

[66] The Pope, 2117-2128.

[67] Andrea del Sarto, 83-87.

[68] Christmas Eve, 360-363.

[69] Pippa passes, 114-180.

[70] A Death in the Desert, 498-499.

[71] A Death in the Desert, 500-513.

[72] Life and Letters of Robert Browning, Mrs. Sutherland Orr, Smith, Elder and Co., p. 185.

[73] A Death in the Desert, 431-433.

[74] A Death in the Desert, 589-594.

[75] Ibid., 292-298.

[76] Apparent Failure.

[77] A Camel-driver.

[78] Browning, E. Dowden, J. M. Dent and Co., pp. 121, 123.

[79] Dramatis Personae.

[80] Browning, E. Dowden, pp. 128-129.

[81] Browning, Dowden, p. 132.

[82] Life and Letters of Browning, Mrs. S. Orr, p. 185.

[83] Supra, pp. 135-145.

[84] Browning, Mrs. S. Orr, pp. 185-186.

[85] Sordello, Book the Sixth.

[86] Ibid.

[87] Ibid.

[88] Sordello, Book the Sixth.

[89] Ibid.

[90] The Two Camels.

[91] Christian Aspects of Life, Westcott, p. 30.

[92] Emerson.

[93] Chap. viii, 24, 25.

[94] Paracelsus, iii, 1012-1013.

[95] The reference in l. 555. “Is it Diodati joins the glimmer of the lake?” is to Byron’s villa at Geneva. That of l. 590, to the Calvinistic theologian (1576-1614) born at Lucca, famous through his work at Geneva as a preacher, etc.

[96] Life and Letters of R. Browning, pp. 318-319.

[97] A Death in the Desert, 474-476.

[98] Rabbi Ben Ezra, i.

[99] Gospel of St. John, xvii, 3; vii, 17.

[100] Ibid., xiv, 1.

[101] Reverie, Asolando.

[102] Christian Aspects of Life, Westcott, Macmillan, pp. 32-33.

[103] A Death in the Desert, 429-431.

[104] Ibid., 266-267.