Tennyson's The PrincessGinn, 1897 - 187 pages |
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Page xvii
... Princess . ' Those who disagree with Tennyson's presentation acknowledge that if it be not true it is well told . His Ida is , in truth , a beautiful and heroic figure : She bowed as if to veil a noble tear . Not peace she looked , the ...
... Princess . ' Those who disagree with Tennyson's presentation acknowledge that if it be not true it is well told . His Ida is , in truth , a beautiful and heroic figure : She bowed as if to veil a noble tear . Not peace she looked , the ...
Page xxvii
... Princess is particularly important to the student , affording him as it does ... Princess he sets before us woman as she is , declares what she should aspire to ... Ida . The fate of Psyche's babe is the pivot upon which the whole story ...
... Princess is particularly important to the student , affording him as it does ... Princess he sets before us woman as she is , declares what she should aspire to ... Ida . The fate of Psyche's babe is the pivot upon which the whole story ...
Page xxviii
... Ida that she has a woman's heart , and such influence as a child may exercise , when all other influences fail , is revealed in the song beginning ' Home they brought her warrior dead . ' Women are not to be hard and inexorable , are ...
... Ida that she has a woman's heart , and such influence as a child may exercise , when all other influences fail , is revealed in the song beginning ' Home they brought her warrior dead . ' Women are not to be hard and inexorable , are ...
Page xxix
... Ida would fail . All men know and all women realize that there are inevitable limita- tions to the progress of the weaker sex in certain directions , and if the boundary line is overstepped , it is at the risk of losing cer- tain ...
... Ida would fail . All men know and all women realize that there are inevitable limita- tions to the progress of the weaker sex in certain directions , and if the boundary line is overstepped , it is at the risk of losing cer- tain ...
Page 36
... Princess Ida waited . Out we paced , I first , and following thro ' the porch that sang All round with laurel , issued in a court Compact of lucid marbles , bossed with lengths Of classic frieze , with ample awnings gay Betwixt the ...
... Princess Ida waited . Out we paced , I first , and following thro ' the porch that sang All round with laurel , issued in a court Compact of lucid marbles , bossed with lengths Of classic frieze , with ample awnings gay Betwixt the ...
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Æneid agrin answer Arac arms babe Bayard Taylor beauty brows canto catalepsy child Collins color criticizes Cyril dark daughter Dawson says dead death dream echoes edition English Enone expression eyes father Florian flowers follow golden hall Hallam Tennyson hand head heard heart Heaven Homer Idyll Iliad king kissed Lady Blanche Lady Psyche lawns light Lilia lips literature living looked Love's Labor's Lost Luce maiden maids medley Melissa Memoriam morning mother moved Nature night noble o'er once ourself palace Palace of Art Paradise Lost passage periphrasis Pindar poem poet poetry Prince Princess Princess Ida Prol Psyche's Rhetoric Rolfe rose sang seemed shadow Shakespeare simile song soul spake speak spoke star stood sweet tears Tennyson thee Theocritus thou thought thro true truth verse Virgil voice Wallace wild wind Winter's Tale woman women word