Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... suggests , although perhaps but faintly , the reverence inspired in the family circle at Somersby by its head , and the mingled love and gratitude with which his authority was in after years remembered . The poet's mother — if we may ...
... suggests , although perhaps but faintly , the reverence inspired in the family circle at Somersby by its head , and the mingled love and gratitude with which his authority was in after years remembered . The poet's mother — if we may ...
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... suggested new ideals to the young poet's fancy . He fell under the wand of the magician Scott , whose sorcery , in turn , gave place to the grander sway of Byron . When he was nearly fifteen , the news of Byron's death filtered through ...
... suggested new ideals to the young poet's fancy . He fell under the wand of the magician Scott , whose sorcery , in turn , gave place to the grander sway of Byron . When he was nearly fifteen , the news of Byron's death filtered through ...
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... suggested material for his scathing humour . Quoting this verse— " Sweet as the noise , in parched plains , Of bubbling wells that fret the stones ( If any sense in me remains ) , Thy words will be - thy cheerful tones As welcome to my ...
... suggested material for his scathing humour . Quoting this verse— " Sweet as the noise , in parched plains , Of bubbling wells that fret the stones ( If any sense in me remains ) , Thy words will be - thy cheerful tones As welcome to my ...
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... suggested by one of Miss Mitford's pas- toral sketches in " Our Village ; " " Audley Court ; " Walking to the Mail ; " " St. Simeon Stylites ; " " Locksley Hall ; " " Godiva ; " part of the " Day Dream ; " " Lady Clare , ” suggested by ...
... suggested by one of Miss Mitford's pas- toral sketches in " Our Village ; " " Audley Court ; " Walking to the Mail ; " " St. Simeon Stylites ; " " Locksley Hall ; " " Godiva ; " part of the " Day Dream ; " " Lady Clare , ” suggested by ...
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... suggested by Tintern Abbey who shall say by what mysterious wonder of beauty and regret , by what sense of the ' tran- sient with the abiding ? " " In its original shape the poem differed materially from its present form . All the ...
... suggested by Tintern Abbey who shall say by what mysterious wonder of beauty and regret , by what sense of the ' tran- sient with the abiding ? " " In its original shape the poem differed materially from its present form . All the ...
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