Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomJ. Murray, 1903 - English literature |
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... published by the Viking Club : " The Skalds liked a round - about way of expressing themselves ; many poets do . Men are called gods of the sword or spear , or ' staves ' of the spear , because they carry it ; and so the ' trees of ...
... published by the Viking Club : " The Skalds liked a round - about way of expressing themselves ; many poets do . Men are called gods of the sword or spear , or ' staves ' of the spear , because they carry it ; and so the ' trees of ...
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... publish . Thereupon Hallam laughingly retorted that as he had the only printed copy of " The Lover's Tale " he should make a fortune by lending it out at five shillings a head . Tennyson's final decision is conveyed in a letter to Moxon ...
... publish . Thereupon Hallam laughingly retorted that as he had the only printed copy of " The Lover's Tale " he should make a fortune by lending it out at five shillings a head . Tennyson's final decision is conveyed in a letter to Moxon ...
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... publish it some day , " and he had some copies printed " to see what it was like . " His wife urged him to give it to the world , but again he decided on sup- pression . * The poet's hand was at last forced . In 1870 Mr. Richard Herne ...
... publish it some day , " and he had some copies printed " to see what it was like . " His wife urged him to give it to the world , but again he decided on sup- pression . * The poet's hand was at last forced . In 1870 Mr. Richard Herne ...
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... published . In a prefatory note Tennyson says : " The original preface to The Lover's Tale ' states that it was composed in my nineteenth year . Two only of the three parts then written were printed , when , feeling the imperfection of ...
... published . In a prefatory note Tennyson says : " The original preface to The Lover's Tale ' states that it was composed in my nineteenth year . Two only of the three parts then written were printed , when , feeling the imperfection of ...
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... published in September , 1798. A second edition was now being projected , and if only " Christabel " might be kept within due limits and finished in time there would be joy at Grasmere . As the fates would have it , " Christabel " grew ...
... published in September , 1798. A second edition was now being projected , and if only " Christabel " might be kept within due limits and finished in time there would be joy at Grasmere . As the fates would have it , " Christabel " grew ...
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Page 175 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England; This nurse, this teeming womb of royal...
Page 199 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities : For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 187 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ; But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steeled The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 193 - And so I was; which plainly signified That I should snarl and bite and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another And not in me: I am myself alone.
Page 201 - tis true, I must be here confin'd by you, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got, And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands.
Page 181 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 90 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 193 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Page 190 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 167 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.