[Robert Browning by C. H. Herford]@TWC D-Link bookRobert Browning CHAPTER I 6/28
Books, business, and religion provided a framework of decorous routine within which these kindly and beautiful souls moved with entire content.
Well-to-do Camberwell perhaps contained few homes so pure and refined; but it must have held many in which the life-blood of political and social interests throbbed more vigorously, and where thought and conversation were in closer touch with the intellectual life of the capital and the larger movements of the time.
Nothing in Browning's boyhood tended to open his imagination to the sense of citizenship and nationality which the imperial pageants and ceremonies of Frankfurt so early kindled in the child Goethe.
But within the limits imposed by this quiet home young Robert soon began to display a vigour and enterprise which tried all its resources.
"He clamoured for occupation from the moment he could speak," and "something to do" meant above all some living thing to be caught for him to play with.
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