Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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Page 80
... Carlyle , and the two great spirits found much in common . A friendship based upon a close kinship of tastes sprang ... Carlyle's house in Chelsea , and had " wit combats , " recalling those of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson at the Mermaid ...
... Carlyle , and the two great spirits found much in common . A friendship based upon a close kinship of tastes sprang ... Carlyle's house in Chelsea , and had " wit combats , " recalling those of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson at the Mermaid ...
Page 81
... Carlyle himself had but a poor idea of poets and their calling- to give him the encouragement which , from the lips of competent advisers , is so sweet to those who would fain climb the Parnassian heights . In the year 1838 , we find ...
... Carlyle himself had but a poor idea of poets and their calling- to give him the encouragement which , from the lips of competent advisers , is so sweet to those who would fain climb the Parnassian heights . In the year 1838 , we find ...
Page 89
... Carlyle , writing of him to a correspondent within a year of the publication of the " Poems , " says that Alfred Tennyson , alone of that time , had proved singing in our curt English tongue to be possible in some measure . Miss Mitford ...
... Carlyle , writing of him to a correspondent within a year of the publication of the " Poems , " says that Alfred Tennyson , alone of that time , had proved singing in our curt English tongue to be possible in some measure . Miss Mitford ...
Page 94
... Carlyle's cor- respondence . Writing to her husband , she says : " Passing through a long dim passage , I came on a tall man leant to the wall , with his head touching the ceiling like a caryatid , to all appear- ance asleep , or ...
... Carlyle's cor- respondence . Writing to her husband , she says : " Passing through a long dim passage , I came on a tall man leant to the wall , with his head touching the ceiling like a caryatid , to all appear- ance asleep , or ...
Page 95
... Carlyle , and he said . he would . ' I told him , if he really meant to come , he had better not wait for backing , under the present circumstances , and then pursued my way to Macready's box . " The promised visit was paid the next ...
... Carlyle , and he said . he would . ' I told him , if he really meant to come , he had better not wait for backing , under the present circumstances , and then pursued my way to Macready's box . " The promised visit was paid the next ...
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