Also, this library admits (is allowed to admit on certain conditions) some books forbidden generally by the censureship, which is of the strictest; a… - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Afterwards I thought it best to spare you any more farewells, which are upon human lips, of all words, the most natural, and of all the most painful.

And now I will tell you. It is nearly two years ago since I have known Mr. Browning. Mr. Kenyon wished to bring him to see me five years ago, as one of the lions of London who roared the gentlest and was best worth my knowing; but I refused then, in my blind dislike to seeing strangers.