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" There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space ; I will take some savage woman, she shall... "
Poems - Page 108
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pages
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Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers: With Other Essays, Volume 2

Abraham Hayward - Authors - 1880 - 444 pages
...desperate resolution to retire to some island in the "shining Orient," partakes a little of the bathos : " There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this...the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space ; I will take...
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The Journal of Mental Science, Volume 4

Electronic journals - 1858 - 656 pages
...exclaims : — " Ah ! for some retreat, Deep in yonder shining Orient, where my life began to beat ; There, methinks would be enjoyment, more than in this...the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind." But also like the same poet, we shall, in the contemplation of the moral and intellectual...
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The Poems of Alfred Tennyson, 1830-1863

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. There...the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space ; I will take...
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As Nature Leads: An Informal Discussion of the Reason why Negro and ...

Joel Augustus Rogers - Social Science - 1987 - 212 pages
...voice of mother Nature: "There the passions cramped no longer shall have scope and breathing space. I will take some savage woman she shall rear my dusky race. Iron jointed, supple sinewed, they shall dive and they shall run Catch the wild goat by the hair and...
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On Howells

Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 296 pages
...speculates. "'What nice girl would go?'" Staniford retorts, and then adds in a revealing literary allusion, " 'I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race' " (p. 66). This line derives from the part of Tennyson's "Locksley Hall" where a frustrated lover yearns...
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Evolution and Literary Theory

Joseph Carroll - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 1096 pages
...progress; among these alternatives, the normative perspective of the poem is clearly that which revels "in this march of mind, / In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind." All these instances constitute distinct normative perspectives. It is also possible,...
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Selected Poetry

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1995 - 244 pages
...trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy -blossom 'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. There...the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind, There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space; 1 will take...
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Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich

Frank Trommler - Comparative literature - 1995 - 292 pages
...tropic island far away: There the passions cramped no longer shall have scope and breathing space; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron jointed, supple-sinew'd. they shall dive, and they shall run. Catch the wild goat by the hair,...
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Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity

James Eli Adams - History - 1995 - 264 pages
..."summer isles of Eden" — There the passions cramped no longer shall have scope and breathing space; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race . . . (167-68) — only to abruptly repudiate the dream: I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of...
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Families

Werner Senn - American literature - 1996 - 294 pages
...Amy, dreams of an escape from the West of technology and book-learning to an Oriental island paradise: There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this...the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramped no longer shall have scope and breathing space; I will take...
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