Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... called " Days and Hours , " some of which have the true poetic ring about them ; but there is a greater wealth of imagery and a subtler depth of thought in his unpublished " Greek Legends . " His letters are well worthy to give him a ...
... called " Days and Hours , " some of which have the true poetic ring about them ; but there is a greater wealth of imagery and a subtler depth of thought in his unpublished " Greek Legends . " His letters are well worthy to give him a ...
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... called by the old monkish name of Holywell . Over the gateway leading to it some by - gone squire has put up an inscription , a medley of Virgil and Horace ; and within , a stream of clear water gushes out on a sand rock , and over it ...
... called by the old monkish name of Holywell . Over the gateway leading to it some by - gone squire has put up an inscription , a medley of Virgil and Horace ; and within , a stream of clear water gushes out on a sand rock , and over it ...
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... called ' The Old Horse . ' " * The more serious work of education was not , meanwhile , neglected . Alfred was taught the rudimentary subjects , partly at home and partly at " Cadney's village school . " A liking for books was naturally ...
... called ' The Old Horse . ' " * The more serious work of education was not , meanwhile , neglected . Alfred was taught the rudimentary subjects , partly at home and partly at " Cadney's village school . " A liking for books was naturally ...
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... called him , a " man of humorous melancholy , ” " " -a “ kindlier , trustier Jacques , " - who in later life became a fashionable London preacher . Lord Tennyson has written of him in a sonnet which has all the sweet pathos of a ...
... called him , a " man of humorous melancholy , ” " " -a “ kindlier , trustier Jacques , " - who in later life became a fashionable London preacher . Lord Tennyson has written of him in a sonnet which has all the sweet pathos of a ...
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... called The Snob , got up at Cambridge by the wags of the undergraduate world . He grimly asserts that they were " unluckily not finished on the day appointed for delivery of the several copies of verses on Timbuctoo , " and , " as it ...
... called The Snob , got up at Cambridge by the wags of the undergraduate world . He grimly asserts that they were " unluckily not finished on the day appointed for delivery of the several copies of verses on Timbuctoo , " and , " as it ...
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