If there js ahy great qualify more perceptableHhan another in" Mr Browning's, intellect it is his decisive arid incisive faculty of thought, his jroreness .and intensity of perception, his rapid and trenchant'resolution of aim. .To charge him with obscurity is about' as accurate as/to calf Lynjceus purblind or to complain of sluggish, action of the telegrphic wire. -He^is: sdmfethfng too much, the reverse -of obscure ;he isi too bhlliant and subtile for the teady reader! of a ready writer to -follow with any certainty the tract of an intelligence x which- ihbves ■With suoh incesserit ra^ffi^lioKeven to .rel^aße^with what spider-like swiftness and. * sagfclty ' his - ' ' buiWihg ; spirit 'leaps -arid lighents to and frombackward and fdrward aa; it .lives % along the -animated line of its labbtir^rMgsfribtQ thread to thread land darts -froM- centre to cirumferace of ; the fglittering 7and qnvering web of living thonghf^woven from the inexhauatibl stores jOf nia; perception and kinled from the! ini i: fexhaustible fire of his imagination.*!—* ""^Algernon Swinburne.' { '
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 45, 20 May 1875, Page 7
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