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give every subtlest change of mood
Browning’s characters in his dramas are presented with a completeness of psychological analysis which makes them of paramount interest to those few who can and like to listen to people holding forth to any length on the stage, and with superb actors, who can give every subtlest change of mood, a Browning drama furnishes an opportunity for the utmost intensity of pleasure.
— from Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke

Grotesque Expressional School consisting of men
Thirdly, the Grotesque Expressional School, consisting of men who, having peculiar powers of observation for the stronger signs of character in anything, and sincerely delighting in them, lose sight of the associated refinements or beauties.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin


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