The letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846

book is a sort of rambling 'Odyssey,' a female 'Odyssey,' if you like,

but full of beauty and nobleness, let the faults be where they may. And then, I like those long, long books, one can live away into ... leaving the world and above all oneself, quite at the end of the avenue of palms--quite out of sight and out of hearing!--Oh, I have felt something like _that_ so often--so often...