permanent passions of humanity and characters of enduring interest. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 144: Mrs Orr gives the dates of composition of several of the _Asolando_ poems. _Rosny_, _Beatrice Signorini_ and _Flute-Music_ were written in the winter of 1887-1888. Two or three of the _Bad Dreams_ are, with less confidence, assigned to the same date. The _Ponte dell' Angelo_ "was imagined during the next autumn in Venice" (see Mrs Bronson's article "Browning in Venice"). "_White Witchcraft_ had been suggested in the same summer (1888) by a letter from a friend in the Channel Islands which spoke of the number of toads to be seen there." _The Cardinal and the Dog_, written with the _Pied Piper_ for Macready's son, is a poem of early date. Mrs Bronson in her article "Browning in Asolo" (_Century Magazine_, April 1900) relates the origin at Asolo 1889 of _The Lady and the Painter_.] [Footnote 145: Mrs Orr, _Life_, p. 414.] [Footnote 146: W.M. Rossetti, Portraits of Browning, i., _Magazine of Art_, 1890, p. 182. Mr Rossetti's words refer to an earlier period.] [Footnote 147: "The Nation," vol. 1., where reminiscences by Moncure Conway may also be found.] [Footnote 148: "My father died without pain or suffering other than that of weakness or weariness"--so Mr R. Barrett Browning wrote to Mrs Bloomfield-Moore. "His death was what death ought to be, but rarely is--so said the doctor." (Quoted in an article on Browning by Mrs Bloomfield-Moore in Lippincott's Magazine--Jan.--June 1890, p. 690.)] [Footnote 149: A grave in the Abbey was at the same time offered for the body of Browning's wife; the removal of her body from Florence would have been against both the wishes of Browning and of the people of Florence. It was therefore declined by Mr R. Barrett Browning. See his letter in Mrs Bloomfield-Moore's article in Lippincott's Magazine, vol. xiv.] [Footnote 150: E.D. West in the first of two papers, "Browning as a Preacher," in _The Dark Blue Magazine_. Browning esteemed these papers highly and in what follows I appropriate, with some modifications, a passage from the first of them. The writer has consented to the use here made of the passage, and has contributed a passage towards the close.] Index [_The names of Robert Browning, the subject of this volume, and of Elizabeth Barrett Browning are not included in the Index_.] _Abt Vogler_ Adams, Sarah Flower Aeschylus (see _Agamemnon_) _Agamemnon_ Alford, Lady M. Ancona Andersen, Hans _Andrea del Sarto_ _Any Wife to any Husband_ _Apparent Failure_ _Aristophanes' Apology_ Arnold, Matthew Arnould, Joseph Arran, Isle of _Artemis Prologuizes_ Asceticism Ashburton, Lady _Asolando_ Asolo _At the Mermaid_ Audierne _Aurora Leigh_ B