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Robert Browning
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Definition:[1812-1889]an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.-from Wikipedia - version of the 12/1/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike
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Some rosy shape, continuing the peach,
Curved beewise o’er its bough; as rosy limbs,
Depending, nestled in the leaves; and just
From a cleft rose-peach the whole Dryad sprang.
But of the stuffs one can be master of,
How I divined their capabilities!
Robert Browning. Pippa Passes
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the frock-fold that had struck in the peach-cleft—to quote Robert Browning.Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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He was not familiar with the works of the poet Browning, but had he been he would have found himself in cordial agreement with the statement of his Pippa in her well-known song that God was in His heaven and all right with the world.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.28 (1971)
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