Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Browning” in chapter 60, page 308 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men:
...nced more American minds than any others in our own age — I mean Darwin and Emerson.
It has been noticeable in contemporary poets — Whittier and Longfellow among ourselves, Tennyson and Browning in England.
It may be said that these are instances drawn from persons of studious tastes and retired habits,
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