Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... remind the biographer , if he were in any need of such a reminder , that the range of his inquiries has limitations , and that the scope of his narrative must be bounded by a sense of what is due to the rights of LORD TENNYSON . 3.
... remind the biographer , if he were in any need of such a reminder , that the range of his inquiries has limitations , and that the scope of his narrative must be bounded by a sense of what is due to the rights of LORD TENNYSON . 3.
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... 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 Memoriam " which , seventeen years afterwards , surprised the critical world with ...
... 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 Memoriam " which , seventeen years afterwards , surprised the critical world with ...
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... narrative seem to have a natural correspondence with the predominant feeling , and , as it were , to be evolved from it by assimilative force . Thirdly , his vivid , picturesque delineation of objects , and the peculiar skill with which ...
... narrative seem to have a natural correspondence with the predominant feeling , and , as it were , to be evolved from it by assimilative force . Thirdly , his vivid , picturesque delineation of objects , and the peculiar skill with which ...
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... narrative , to pursue these emendations at greater length . Enough has been said to let it be clearly under- stood that the criticisms which soon followed the publication of the 1833 volume related to pieces , in 68 LORD TENNYSON .
... narrative , to pursue these emendations at greater length . Enough has been said to let it be clearly under- stood that the criticisms which soon followed the publication of the 1833 volume related to pieces , in 68 LORD TENNYSON .
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... I saw your face ; -though I love him with allowance . O , cherish him with love and praise , and draw from him whole books full of new verses yet ! " CHAPTER V. THE narrative of Tennyson's movements now becomes of LORD TENNYSON . 99.
... I saw your face ; -though I love him with allowance . O , cherish him with love and praise , and draw from him whole books full of new verses yet ! " CHAPTER V. THE narrative of Tennyson's movements now becomes of LORD TENNYSON . 99.
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