Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... reference to this pedestrian tour occurs in " In Memoriam , " where the poet speaks of " the Past in which we went through summer France . " " Straight and with a broad chest . " Tennyson's frame had already expanded according to the ...
... reference to this pedestrian tour occurs in " In Memoriam , " where the poet speaks of " the Past in which we went through summer France . " " Straight and with a broad chest . " Tennyson's frame had already expanded according to the ...
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... reference in the magazines and reviews , sometimes favourable but as frequently the reverse , reminded him that , if he had shut himself up from the world , the world had not forgotten him . Ten years is a great slice out of a man's ...
... reference in the magazines and reviews , sometimes favourable but as frequently the reverse , reminded him that , if he had shut himself up from the world , the world had not forgotten him . Ten years is a great slice out of a man's ...
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... references which , although they might be discarded by a biographer with a wealth of materials at his disposal , furnish for our more modest undertaking precious grains of personal interest . In 1845 , the poet was staying temporarily ...
... references which , although they might be discarded by a biographer with a wealth of materials at his disposal , furnish for our more modest undertaking precious grains of personal interest . In 1845 , the poet was staying temporarily ...
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... reference , and are signifi- cant , inasmuch as the writer recognizes Tennyson as a possible candidate for the office to which , five years later , he was appointed : - - " Then up and spake young Tennyson — ' Who's here that fears for ...
... reference , and are signifi- cant , inasmuch as the writer recognizes Tennyson as a possible candidate for the office to which , five years later , he was appointed : - - " Then up and spake young Tennyson — ' Who's here that fears for ...
Page 108
... references personal to himself , retaliated in some verses that hit the mark like the arrows of . Philoctetes . These appeared in Punch , on February the 18th , 1846 , and bore the signature " Alcibiades . " Bulwer Lytton was not then ...
... references personal to himself , retaliated in some verses that hit the mark like the arrows of . Philoctetes . These appeared in Punch , on February the 18th , 1846 , and bore the signature " Alcibiades . " Bulwer Lytton was not then ...
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