Tennyson's The PrincessLongmans, Green, and Company, 1898 - 142 pages |
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Page xiii
... Prince of the North has been betrothed in child- hood to a Princess of the South , and has fallen in love with her picture , a lock of her hair , and the idea of mar- rying her ; but when the embassy is sent to bring her as a bride ...
... Prince of the North has been betrothed in child- hood to a Princess of the South , and has fallen in love with her picture , a lock of her hair , and the idea of mar- rying her ; but when the embassy is sent to bring her as a bride ...
Page xiv
... Prince are captured and brought before the Princess for judg- ment ; then , at the critical moment , despatches come from her father saying that the Prince's father has in- vested her palace with an army , taken him prisoner , and holds ...
... Prince are captured and brought before the Princess for judg- ment ; then , at the critical moment , despatches come from her father saying that the Prince's father has in- vested her palace with an army , taken him prisoner , and holds ...
Page xv
... Prince's disgraceful trick can be saved from contempt only by considering it as a prank ; in certain parts , such as the conversation of the host , the expulsion of the Prince , and the return to the camp , the poem touches mere ...
... Prince's disgraceful trick can be saved from contempt only by considering it as a prank ; in certain parts , such as the conversation of the host , the expulsion of the Prince , and the return to the camp , the poem touches mere ...
Page xvi
... Prince and his friends - they playing at being women in their clothes , as the women are playing at being men in their minds - so the serious element in the poem , its thought and spirituality , and its finer beauties of insight and ...
... Prince and his friends - they playing at being women in their clothes , as the women are playing at being men in their minds - so the serious element in the poem , its thought and spirituality , and its finer beauties of insight and ...
Page xvii
... Prince . It is as difficult for the poet to make her lovable as to make the Prince heroic . They knew her at home very well ; the description which her father first gives of her " all she is and does is awful " —is true of her as she ...
... Prince . It is as difficult for the poet to make her lovable as to make the Prince heroic . They knew her at home very well ; the description which her father first gives of her " all she is and does is awful " —is true of her as she ...
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