As we ascend the landscape widens; we see it expanding in the verse.

Moreover, with a wonderful power, Browning makes us feel the air grow keener, fresher, brighter, more soundless and lonelier.

That, too, is given by the verse; it is a triumph in Nature-poetry.
Nor is he less effective in narrow landscape, in the description of small shut-in spaces of Nature.

There is the garden at the beginning of _Paracelsus_; the ravine, step by step, in _Pauline_; the sea-beach, and its little cabinet landscapes, in _James Lee's Wife_; the exquisite pictures of the path over the Col di Colma in _By the Fireside_--for though the whole of the landscape is given, yet each verse almost might stand as a small picture by itself.

It is one of Browning's favourite ways of description, to walk slowly through the landscape, describing step by step those parts of it which strike him, and leaving to us to combine the parts into the whole.