Religious questions have occupied, as we have seen, some of Mr. Browning's most important reflective poems.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we love-may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
I am the more sure of this, that yours is a thoughtful and reflective mind.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond