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Quotation from My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
“She had A heart--how shall I say?--too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.”
My Last Duchess, Lines 21-24 (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 (text from Baker's 1899 edition))
The Duke's complaint against his wife, which reads to the listener as praise of her generous spirit.
Citation: "She had A heart--how shall I say?--too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere." — Robert Browning, My Last Duchess, Lines 21-24 (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 (text from Baker's 1899 edition)). (id my-last-duchess-q2)
Portrait: Robert Browning by Herbert Rose Barraud, circa 1888, Herbert Rose Barraud / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
