Vulgar words in Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods - The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 (Page 1)
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What Browning felt about frescoes may be applied--_mutatis mutandis_--to books in such an asylum as I am trying to portray: Wherever a fresco peels and drops, Wherever an outline weakens and wanes Till the latest life in the painting stops, Stands One whom each fainter pulse-tick pains: One, wishful each scrap should clutch the brick, Each tinge not wholly escape the plaster, A lion who dies of an ass's kick, The wronged great soul of an ancient Master.