Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... Arthur's knights : they were champions and warriors defending a stone heap ; or , again , they would set up opposing camps with a king in the midst of each . The king was a willow wand stuck into the ground , with an outer circle of ...
... Arthur's knights : they were champions and warriors defending a stone heap ; or , again , they would set up opposing camps with a king in the midst of each . The king was a willow wand stuck into the ground , with an outer circle of ...
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... Arthur Henry Hallam . It is indispensable that we should pause a moment in the narrative , to give a silhouette of the man who , dying when he was only in his twenty - third year , was yet deemed worthy of that long - pondered " In ...
... Arthur Henry Hallam . It is indispensable that we should pause a moment in the narrative , to give a silhouette of the man who , dying when he was only in his twenty - third year , was yet deemed worthy of that long - pondered " In ...
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... Arthur Hallam , when he went to Cambridge in 1828 , although not eighteen years of age , was already ripe in culture , and sage for his time of life . Here , again , the same desul- tory methods , accentuated by a weak condition of ...
... Arthur Hallam , when he went to Cambridge in 1828 , although not eighteen years of age , was already ripe in culture , and sage for his time of life . Here , again , the same desul- tory methods , accentuated by a weak condition of ...
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... Arthur Hallam and the Tennysons , and , of course , with those who could afford time for their noctes cænæque . " John Mitchell Kemble was another of these college associates . Tennyson , in one of his early sonnets , predicted of him ...
... Arthur Hallam and the Tennysons , and , of course , with those who could afford time for their noctes cænæque . " John Mitchell Kemble was another of these college associates . Tennyson , in one of his early sonnets , predicted of him ...
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... and ex- ample of Arthur Hallam . Like his friend , he supplemented the prevailing studies of the uni- versity with adventurous explorations into regions of speculative thought , and free range over the fields 38 LORD TENNYSON .
... and ex- ample of Arthur Hallam . Like his friend , he supplemented the prevailing studies of the uni- versity with adventurous explorations into regions of speculative thought , and free range over the fields 38 LORD TENNYSON .
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