AEstheticism, Bohemianism, the irresponsibilities of the artist, the untidy morals of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, he hated with a consuming hatred.

He was himself exact in everything, from his scholarship to his clothes; and even when he wore the loose white garments of the lounger in Southern Europe, they were in their own way as precise as a dress suit.

This extra carefulness in all things he defended against the cant of Bohemianism as the right attitude for the poet.

When some one excused coarseness or negligence on the ground of genius, he said, "That is an error: Noblesse oblige." Browning's prejudices, however, belonged altogether to that healthy order which is characterised by a cheerful and satisfied ignorance.

It never does a man any very great harm to hate a thing that he knows nothing about.