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Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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plugged, eyes gummed together, palate, tongueAnd teeth one mud-paste made of poppy milk. As for Caponsacchi, he asks what right had he torun away with the countess. 11 Pray, in what rubric of the breviaryDo you find it registered the part of a priestThat to right wrongs he skip from the church-door,Go journeying with a woman thats a wife ? What possible defence could explain the discoverymade at Castelnuovo, where, when Guido arrived inhot haste, in the inn-yard, bold as twere Troy-town,There strutted Paris in correct costume.Pompilia soon looked Helen to the lifeRecumbent upstairs in her pink and white,One couch in one room and one room for both ? Guido, on the other hand, was a sustainer ofsociety, for he exercised no more than a husbandsright to save his honour which is more than life ;while the wretched clodhoppers from Vitiano, whowere ready to murder women for a few scudi apiece,were no other than four courageous, conscientiousfriends. It was the news that Pompilia had a child,
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,02 -THE BACK OF THE PRETURA, CASTELNUOVO,Showing the windows of the prison in which Pompilia was confined. The Pleaders his son and heir, that finally drove Guido to frenzy, for it was then that the overburdened mindBroke down, what was a brain became a blaze Arcangelis speech throughout is tedious, frivolousand largely beside the mark. It is inflated with flatu-lent conceit, with extraneous detail and fanciful imagin-ings. He plays pitch and toss with quotations in Latin,and fills his memorial with a chaotic jumble of legalreferences and citations. It is no argued defence ofthe prisoners, but merely a pretentious collection offorensic quibblings, babbled forth by a man of littlemind and less understanding. It is obvious enough that Arcangeli is made but apuppet champion of Guidos claims in order to bringinto strong relief that powerful, masterly, wide-mindedjudgment of the Pope, which follows upon the advo-cates pleadings. For a like reason, with a like purpose, to makeprominent by

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