The song in "Pippa Passes" beginning "A king lived long ago," and the verses introduced in "James Lee's Wife," were also first published in this Magazine, edited by the generous and very earliest Encourager of Mr. Browning's boyish attempts at poetry.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
A lover and liberal patron of the fine arts, he is an Encourager of literature, and partial to the society of literary men; irreproachable in private life, and respected in public, what is there wanting to render him faultless?
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
As for Sam, he furtively admired her as much as the street-boys, and would be seen to slap his thighs and double over with silent merriment, when she was a little more wicked than usual; not that Sam was an Encourager of vice; by no means; but as he confided to Hetty,- "It do beat all nater to see that pious old gurrl so fond of a haythen creetur that's enough to disgrace a pirate hisself; an' the quareness of it just gets me, it do."
"Sara, a Princess"
Fannie E. Newberry