His personality is sufficiently marked to claim the importance of a type; and as such he stands forth, as contrasted with both Paracelsus and AprIle, and yet a bond of union between them.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
AprIle too has sinned, but in the opposite manner; he has refused to know.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
But we know that it was already growing in Mr. Browning's mind; for Sordello had been foreshadowed in AprIle, though the two are as different as their common poetic quality allows.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr