Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... garden . " Amid the picturesque associations of this Lincolnshire rectory , beneath its leafy elms and within the sound of its ever - brawling brook , Tennyson's childhood was passed . That these associations wove themselves into the ...
... garden . " Amid the picturesque associations of this Lincolnshire rectory , beneath its leafy elms and within the sound of its ever - brawling brook , Tennyson's childhood was passed . That these associations wove themselves into the ...
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... garden , where the sunflower , " shining fair , rays round with flames her disc of seed , " and , about all , " the circle of the hills , " were the meet environ- ment of a poetic childhood . Not less happily was Tennyson placed in his ...
... garden , where the sunflower , " shining fair , rays round with flames her disc of seed , " and , about all , " the circle of the hills , " were the meet environ- ment of a poetic childhood . Not less happily was Tennyson placed in his ...
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... thoughts usually far removed from the cramped intelligence of childhood . At five years of age , little Alfred , Harper's Magazine , December , 1883 . * as the wind was sweeping through the rectory garden , 12 LORD TENNYSON .
... thoughts usually far removed from the cramped intelligence of childhood . At five years of age , little Alfred , Harper's Magazine , December , 1883 . * as the wind was sweeping through the rectory garden , 12 LORD TENNYSON .
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... garden , —and when he came back from church , little Alfred brought the slate to his brother , all covered with written lines of blank verse . They were made on the model of Thomson's ' Seasons , ' the only poctry he had ever read . One ...
... garden , —and when he came back from church , little Alfred brought the slate to his brother , all covered with written lines of blank verse . They were made on the model of Thomson's ' Seasons , ' the only poctry he had ever read . One ...
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... The worst of it is , that they make the Bespattered not only feel , but look ridiculous ; he seems as absurd as an Image in a tea - garden ; and bedizened with faded and fantastic garlands , the public cough LORD TENNYSON . 51.
... The worst of it is , that they make the Bespattered not only feel , but look ridiculous ; he seems as absurd as an Image in a tea - garden ; and bedizened with faded and fantastic garlands , the public cough LORD TENNYSON . 51.
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