Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... early years of his life : " The native village of Tennyson is not situated in the fens , but in a pretty pastoral district of softly sloping hills and large ash - trees . It is not based on bogs , but on a clean sandstone . There is a ...
... early years of his life : " The native village of Tennyson is not situated in the fens , but in a pretty pastoral district of softly sloping hills and large ash - trees . It is not based on bogs , but on a clean sandstone . There is a ...
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... . " The inspirations of Somersby scenery , with its " ridgèd wolds , " may be traced in more than one passage of Tennyson's early writings , and have given local colour to some of the maturer ones . 8 LORD TENNYSON .
... . " The inspirations of Somersby scenery , with its " ridgèd wolds , " may be traced in more than one passage of Tennyson's early writings , and have given local colour to some of the maturer ones . 8 LORD TENNYSON .
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... early part of the century , Somersby was a village of fewer than seventy inhabitants , as rural in its retirement as the heart of a purely agricultural county could possibly be , and the young Tennysons were consequently thrown very ...
... early part of the century , Somersby was a village of fewer than seventy inhabitants , as rural in its retirement as the heart of a purely agricultural county could possibly be , and the young Tennysons were consequently thrown very ...
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... early period in the Tennyson household , and many counsels and encouraging words would , no doubt , be forthcoming from all but the youngest members of the circle . Alfred was notable to the village gossips , in this early boyhood , by ...
... early period in the Tennyson household , and many counsels and encouraging words would , no doubt , be forthcoming from all but the youngest members of the circle . Alfred was notable to the village gossips , in this early boyhood , by ...
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... early pieces . For the most part , if the book came under their notice at all , it was treated with cold and contemptuous neglect . Only one contemporary criticism has been traced , namely that which appeared in the Literary Chronicle ...
... early pieces . For the most part , if the book came under their notice at all , it was treated with cold and contemptuous neglect . Only one contemporary criticism has been traced , namely that which appeared in the Literary Chronicle ...
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