Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 - Literary landmarks |
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... im- pulses in a fitting form . In the mean time , the prompt and quick spirit of his lyrics is doing great service to the cause of progress far and wide . ALFRED TENNYSON . ALFRED TENNYSON moves on his way through 512 PROCTER .
... im- pulses in a fitting form . In the mean time , the prompt and quick spirit of his lyrics is doing great service to the cause of progress far and wide . ALFRED TENNYSON . ALFRED TENNYSON moves on his way through 512 PROCTER .
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William Howitt. ALFRED TENNYSON . ALFRED TENNYSON moves on his way through life heard , but by the public unseen . We might put to him a question similar to that which Wordsworth put to the cuckoo : - " O blithe new - comer ! I have ...
William Howitt. ALFRED TENNYSON . ALFRED TENNYSON moves on his way through life heard , but by the public unseen . We might put to him a question similar to that which Wordsworth put to the cuckoo : - " O blithe new - comer ! I have ...
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... lord mayor . But in few or none of these places will you find Alfred Tennyson . " He has gone down into his garden , to his beds of spices , to feed in his garden and gather lilies . " You may hear his voice , but where is the man ? He ...
... lord mayor . But in few or none of these places will you find Alfred Tennyson . " He has gone down into his garden , to his beds of spices , to feed in his garden and gather lilies . " You may hear his voice , but where is the man ? He ...
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... Alfred Tennyson . There is nothing stirring , nothing restless , nothing ambitious , in its tone ; it has no freaks and eccentricities by which it seeks to strike the public ... Tennyson's poetry you enter one of sun and 516 TENNYSON .
... Alfred Tennyson . There is nothing stirring , nothing restless , nothing ambitious , in its tone ; it has no freaks and eccentricities by which it seeks to strike the public ... Tennyson's poetry you enter one of sun and 516 TENNYSON .
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... Alfred Tennyson loves to individualize ; to select some person or scene from the multitude or the mass , and to throw himself wholly into it . From the heart of this per- sonage or group of personages he speaks for the time , the ...
... Alfred Tennyson loves to individualize ; to select some person or scene from the multitude or the mass , and to throw himself wholly into it . From the heart of this per- sonage or group of personages he speaks for the time , the ...
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Page 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Page 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Page 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Page 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Page 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Page 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...