Chapter V · Chapter 5

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a feeling of delighted approval and liking

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

regarded with admiration

From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

happening at a time subsequent to a reference time

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

somewhat ill or prone to illness

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

-ing form of “allege” — report or maintain

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

prior to a specified or implied time

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

characterized by intense emotion

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

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From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

Bound written or printed works.

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

the two together, not just one

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a male with the same parents as someone else

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

possessive form of “brother” — a male with the same parents as someone else

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

possessive form of “browning” — United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

without offspring

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

not open or affording passage or access

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

past form of “consent” — give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

someone who communicates by means of letters

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the child of your aunt or uncle

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

possessive form of “cousin” — the child of your aunt or uncle

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

past form of “decline” — grow worse

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

give pleasure to or be pleasing to

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

(used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

-ing form of “drown” — cover completely or make imperceptible

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

advanced in years; (“aged” is pronounced as two syllables)

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

closed in or surrounded or included within

From this reading Never was a spirit of more vivid fire enclosed within a tomb.

inspired with confidence

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

with enthusiasm; in an enthusiastic manner

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

at any time

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

possessive form of “father” — a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

start firing a weapon

From this reading Never was a spirit of more vivid fire enclosed within a tomb.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

at a previous time

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

set up or found

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

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From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

something acquired without compensation

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the childhood of a girl

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

light informal conversation for social occasions

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

the solid part of the earth's surface

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a room or building equipped with one or more toilets

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

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From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

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From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

in the recent past

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

happening at a time subsequent to a reference time

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a written message addressed to a person or organization

From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

of or relating to or characteristic of literature

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

creative writing of recognized artistic value

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

a person who loves someone or is loved by someone

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

used to say something is possible but not certain

From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

a particular point in time

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a form of address for a man

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

not ever; at no time in the past or future

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force

From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

occurring from time to time

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

held or filled or in use

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

on one occasion

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

and nothing more

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

plural of “page” — one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

plural of “poem” — a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

a woman poet

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

plural of “poet” — a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

past form of “propose” — make a proposal, declare a plan for something

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

to a degree (not used with a negative)

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

interpret something that is written or printed

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

freed from illness or injury

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

a remark that calls attention to something or someone

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the act of refusing

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

provide physical relief, as from pain

From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

separated in relationship by a given degree of descent

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

past form of “return” — go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

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From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

perception by means of the eyes

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

a general conscious awareness

From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

marked by absence of sound

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

relating to human society and its members

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

an upholstered seat for more than one person

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

the vital principle or animating force within living things

From this reading Never was a spirit of more vivid fire enclosed within a tomb.

plural of “stranger” — anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

grievously affected especially by disease

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

an idea that is suggested

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

disclosing unintentionally something concealed

From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

in spite of the fact that

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

inflected form of “tell” — express in words

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

From this reading Never was a spirit of more vivid fire enclosed within a tomb.

with truth

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

in a untrue manner

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

the topmost one of two

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

literature in metrical form

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

someone who visits

From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

evoking lifelike images within the mind

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

plural of “volume” — the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

which person or people

From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.

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From this reading Never was a spirit of more vivid fire enclosed within a tomb.

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From this reading Might he not relieve his sense of obligation by telling Miss Barrett, in a letter, that he admired her work?

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Love and Marriage In 1841, John Kenyon, formerly a school-fellow of Browning's father, now an elderly lover of literature and of literary society, childless, wealthy, generous-hearted, proposed to Browning that he should call upon Elizabeth Barrett, Kenyon's cousin once removed, who was already distinguished as a writer of ardent and original verse.

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Mr Kenyon encouraged the suggestion, and though to love and be silent might on the whole have been more to Browning's liking, he wrote--January 10, 1845--and writing truthfully he wrote enthusiastically.[36] Miss Barrett, never quite recovered from a riding accident in early girlhood, and stricken down for long in both soul and body by the shock of her brother's death by drowning, lay from day to day and month to month, in an upper room of her father's house in Wimpole Street, occupied, upon her sofa, with her books and papers--her Greek dramatists and her Elizabethan poets--shut out from the world, with windows for ever closed, and with only an occasional female visitor, to gossip of the social and literary life of London.

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From this reading Browning consented, but the poetess "through some blind dislike of seeing strangers"--as she afterwards told a correspondent--declined, alleging, not untruly, as a ground of refusal, that she was then ailing in health.[35] Three years later Kenyon sent his cousin's new volumes of _Poems_ as a gift to Sarianna Browning; her brother, lately returned from Italy, read these volumes with delight and admiration, and found on one of the pages a reference in verse to his "Pomegranates" of a kind that could not but give him a vivid moment of pleasure.