...And, in the second place, I entirely deny that a poet of your real dramatic power ought to let himself come up, as you constantly do — through all manner...in twenty places — wrong or right — and if one hasn't much stuff of one's own to spare to patch with, you are worse than the worst Alpine Glacier...

...monosyllable as any in the language, and to say " Wunce — mur — y prayed " — instead of " once more I." now and then poor Pippa herself shall speak a long...in twenty places — wrong or right — and if one hasn't much stuff of one's own to spare to patch with, you are worse than the worst Alpine Glacier...

...view compare Harrold, p. 35. 9. As Ruskin complained in his letter to Browning of 2 December 1855, "Every now and then poor Pippa herself shall speak a long piece of Robert Browning." Edmund Clarence Stedman, Victorian Poets, rev. ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889), p. 318, observes...

...Letters," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 54 (1972): 324-27. Ruskin had been reading Men and Women: Your Ellipses are quite Unconscionable: before one...you up in twenty places, wrong or right, and if one hasn't much stuff of one's own to spare to patch with! You are worse than the worst Alpine Glacier...