The Study of Poetry • Paragraph 1491
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“‘What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i’ the scale.’” (‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’, 7).--Rev. Prof. Westcott on Browning’s View of Life (‘Browning Soc. Papers’, iv., 405, 406).