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"The rows will come wrong," she said piteously, "and Tennyson's poetry is so very absorbing!" Mr. Hawkehurst showed himself to be possessed of honourable, not to say delicate, feelings in his new position. The gothic villa was his paradise, and the gates had been freely opened to admit him whensoever he chose to come.
LIFE. Tennyson's life is a remarkable one in this respect, that from beginning to end he seems to have been dominated by a single impulse, the impulse of poetry. He had no large or remarkable experiences, no wild oats to sow, no great successes or reverses, no business cares or public offices.
I counted twelve of them and grew dizzy. They ranged themselves in a row, with their hands behind them, and began screeching Tennyson's "Miller's Daughter" with such a maximum of shrillness, and such a minimum of expression, that I began to think that tailing wild cattle on the mountains, at midnight, in a thunderstorm, with my boots full of water, was a far preferable situation to my present one.
Perhaps to aid another Alma Tadema to paint the beauty of another vanished civilization; perhaps to assist the illustration of an English Dictionary of Buddhism; perhaps to inspire some future laureate with a metaphor startling as Tennyson's figure of the "oiled and curled Assyrian bull." Assuredly they would not be preserved in vain.
I felt like he knowed I had set out to pump him. I wisht I hadn't tried it. Then he tells me a quest is a hunt. And I'm glad that's over with. But it ain't. Fur purty soon he says: "Danny, did you ever hear of Lady Clara Vere de Vere?" "No," I says, "who is she?" "A lady friend of Lord Tennyson's," he says, "whose manners were above reproach."
For nearly fifty years after the battle of Waterloo , England had no war of magnitude. In 1854 she joined France in a war against Russia to keep her from taking Constantinople. Tennyson's well-known poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, commemorates an incident in this bloody contest, which was successful in preventing Russia from dismembering Turkey.
There are indeed occasionally to be found among the believers men of refined and exalted spiritualism, who in their lives and conversation remind one of Tennyson's Christian knight-errant in his yearning towards the hope set before him: "to me is given Such hope I may not fear; I long to breathe the airs of heaven, Which sometimes meet me here.
As for the other poets, we have Coleridge, the author of Christabel, that piece of winter witchcraft, Kubla Khan, that oriental dazzlement, and the Ancient Mariner, that most English of all this list of enchantments. Of Tennyson's work, besides Merlin and the Gleam, there are the poems when the mantle was surely on his shoulders: The Lady of Shalott, The Lotus Eaters, Sir Galahad, and St.
Henry James some thirty years ago, when he was dealing with Tennyson's 'Queen Mary, "seems to me of all literary forms the very noblest.... More than any other work of literary art, it needs a masterly structure." Whether nobler or not, the dramatic form has always had a powerful fascination for the novelists, who are forever casting longing eyes on the stage. Mr.
The great jubilation during the latter half of the nineteenth century from 1851 onwards over world-wide trade and Industrial Exhibitions, as the heralds of the world's peace and amity a jubilation voiced in Tennyson's earlier Locksley Hall was to a certain extent justified. There is no doubt that the nations have been drawn together by intertrading and learned to know each other.
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