Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... honour to any man that ever wrote . Such , we do not hesitate to affirm , is the little work before us ; and the examiners seem to have felt it like ourselves , for they have assigned the prize to its author , though the measure in ...
... honour to any man that ever wrote . Such , we do not hesitate to affirm , is the little work before us ; and the examiners seem to have felt it like ourselves , for they have assigned the prize to its author , though the measure in ...
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... honours of the schools . His intention , we may reasonably suppose , was already resolute to make literature the real business of his life . Knowing the measure of his own powers , and feeling within him the capability of accomplishing ...
... honours of the schools . His intention , we may reasonably suppose , was already resolute to make literature the real business of his life . Knowing the measure of his own powers , and feeling within him the capability of accomplishing ...
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... honour of becoming crystallized into popular quotations . It is worthy of remark that , in “ You ask me why " and " Love thou thy land , " Tenny- son essayed the metre which he was afterwards to use with such consummate mastery in " In ...
... honour of becoming crystallized into popular quotations . It is worthy of remark that , in “ You ask me why " and " Love thou thy land , " Tenny- son essayed the metre which he was afterwards to use with such consummate mastery in " In ...
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... honoured welcome to Alfred Tennyson . The great novelist was then living in Devonshire Terrace , and besides Tennyson , Monckton Milnes , Lytton , Captain Marryatt , and Tom Taylor were often his guests . Charles Knight , in " Passages ...
... honoured welcome to Alfred Tennyson . The great novelist was then living in Devonshire Terrace , and besides Tennyson , Monckton Milnes , Lytton , Captain Marryatt , and Tom Taylor were often his guests . Charles Knight , in " Passages ...
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... honour . Mr. Browning's great qualities were not without discriminating supporters , but the obscurity of his style prevented him from enjoy- ing , at that time , much popular favour . The Athenæum suggested the name of Elizabeth ...
... honour . Mr. Browning's great qualities were not without discriminating supporters , but the obscurity of his style prevented him from enjoy- ing , at that time , much popular favour . The Athenæum suggested the name of Elizabeth ...
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