much-sacrificing

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Tennyson, when he wrote it, was just trying the peculiarities of his style: he was testing the quality of his cadences, the ring of his long sententious lines repeated continually as refrains, and the trustworthiness of his artful, much-sacrificing simplicity.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science : Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873