Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... sweet and gentle and most imaginative woman ; so kind - hearted that it had passed into a proverb , and the wicked inhabitants of a neigh- bouring village used to bring their dogs to her windows and beat them , in order to be bribed to ...
... sweet and gentle and most imaginative woman ; so kind - hearted that it had passed into a proverb , and the wicked inhabitants of a neigh- bouring village used to bring their dogs to her windows and beat them , in order to be bribed to ...
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... sweet graciousness of life tinctured with the sentiments of chivalrous and noble manhood . The companions of Tennyson's undergraduate days included such men as Trench , Monckton Milnes ,. George Venables , James Spedding , W. H. Brook ...
... sweet graciousness of life tinctured with the sentiments of chivalrous and noble manhood . The companions of Tennyson's undergraduate days included such men as Trench , Monckton Milnes ,. George Venables , James Spedding , W. H. Brook ...
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... sweet pathos of a cherished regret : — " How oft we two have heard St. Mary's chimes ! How oft the Cantab supper , host and guest , Would echo helpless laughter to your jest ! How oft with him we paced that walk of limes , Him , the ...
... sweet pathos of a cherished regret : — " How oft we two have heard St. Mary's chimes ! How oft the Cantab supper , host and guest , Would echo helpless laughter to your jest ! How oft with him we paced that walk of limes , Him , the ...
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... sweet old home , rich in the graciousness of happy memories , sur- rounded with her girls ripening into womanhood , and her boys standing , as it were , at the portals of that life of action and responsibility which so often cuts the ...
... sweet old home , rich in the graciousness of happy memories , sur- rounded with her girls ripening into womanhood , and her boys standing , as it were , at the portals of that life of action and responsibility which so often cuts the ...
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... sweet gleams of happi- ness , so soon to be shivered by the stroke of a great calamity , a touching interest attaches to a sonnet of most delicate fancy written by Arthur Hallam to his betrothed when he began to teach her Italian ...
... sweet gleams of happi- ness , so soon to be shivered by the stroke of a great calamity , a touching interest attaches to a sonnet of most delicate fancy written by Arthur Hallam to his betrothed when he began to teach her Italian ...
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