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  • In the afternoon they came unto a land
    In which it seemed always afternoon.
    All round the coast the languid air did swoon,
    Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
    Tennyson, The Lotus-Eaters
    The corner of the opposite wood turned out to be an acute point.†   (source)
  • I'd been reading Tennyson to her one night, because the flow and rhythm of his poetry seemed restful.†   (source)
  • She has chosen Lord Tennyson's famous poem, "The Lady of Shalott," as an inspiration for our work.†   (source)
  • Was it Tennyson who once said— "Yes, it was," snapped David, silencing the melodramatic smee.†   (source)
  • And my mother, the lover of Tennyson and early Yeats, began to realize that she had caught onto a different breed of dog.†   (source)
  • My father's name was Alfred Tennyson Burns, known to all as Fred.†   (source)
  • Her mother had written poetry in the manner of Tennyson.†   (source)
  • A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.†   (source)
  • Sam gave Mrs. Tennyson an additional three onions, and she fed them one at a time to Mary Lou.†   (source)
  • The mindless turmoil of Nature, he thinks; Tennyson's teeth and claws.†   (source)
  • A line from that other poem, the Tennyson one, comes to mind suddenly: The flood may bear me far.†   (source)
  • "The Good Lord, yes," agreed Mrs. Tennyson, "but not Dr. Hawthorn.†   (source)
  • I find one poem by Tennyson and I want to read it but I don't have time.†   (source)
  • "All right then," said Mrs. Tennyson, "give me my change in onions."†   (source)
  • "Good morning, Hattie," Mrs. Tennyson replied.†   (source)
  • "It was your onion tonic," said Mrs. Tennyson.†   (source)
  • "My husband knows exactly where I am and how I am dressed, thank you," said Mrs. Tennyson.†   (source)
  • Before returning home, Mrs. Tennyson bought a dozen onions from Sam.†   (source)
  • Carefully sliding Tennyson's poems beneath her arm, he turned to them.†   (source)
  • Now, you're all familiar with Tennyson's poem.†   (source)
  • Your father was reading me my Tennyson before I dozed off like a silly girl.†   (source)
  • — ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Maud, 1855.†   (source)
  • In his crackly North Mississippi—West Tennessee baritone, its sounds couldn't have been much less stately than the sounds Tennyson heard as he wrote: Cannon to right of them
    Cannon to left of them,
    Cannon in front of them
    Volley'd and thunder'd ….
    He stopped again and asked: "So where are they now?"†   (source)
  • But he continued to go to the lumberyard every day simply because his father was there, and in the evenings he would read the works of Whitman and Tennyson aloud as his father rocked beside him.†   (source)
  • She used to tutor neighborhood schoolchildren in their homes, on their verandas and beds, helping them to memorize Tennyson and Wordsworth, to pronounce words like sign and cough, to understand the difference between Aristotelian and Shakespearean tragedy.†   (source)
  • Or I read Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a man whose majesty was second only to God's, in the opinion of Miss Violence.†   (source)
  • — ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Maud, 1855.†   (source)
  • Tennyson was somewhat out of date, by English standards — Oscar Wilde was in the ascendant then, at least among the younger set — but then, everything in Port Ticonderoga was somewhat out of date.†   (source)
  • I want to find out about Dylan Thomas and Alfred Lord Tennyson and if they have any poems that did make the selection.†   (source)
  • She took the name from Tennyson: The island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, ….†   (source)
  • As Tennyson says in his overly botanical fashion, it is time to pluck "the blood-red blossom of war."†   (source)
  • Oh yes — dear Mr. Tennyson.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Tennyson was normally a very proper woman who never went out in public without dressing up in fine clothes and a hat.†   (source)
  • G'morning, Mrs. Tennyson," he said.†   (source)
  • "It made my husband and me sick as well," said Mrs. Tennyson, "but it nearly killed Becca, what with her being so young.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Gladys Tennyson was wearing just her nightgown and robe as she came running down the street after Sam.†   (source)
  • "And how about this other?" she asked, and waved her hand toward the body of the ship where it had, "Alfred Tennyson Burns, a good husband and a good father, a good provider and a reasonable Christian, a mediocre singer, a good man with a love for nature and literature and an excellent mathematician who never did a damn thing with it--Born to Curtis Junior Burns and Mary Ray Burns in the town of Clayboro, county of Thompson, state of South Carolina on January 4, 1917, and went with…†   (source)
  • "It's Tennyson," I told her, remembering from all the nights my father had sat and quoted poems aloud, over and over until I could guess who had written them.†   (source)
  • —from "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson CHAPTER ONE JUNE 21, 1895 Bombay, India "PLEASE TELL ME THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE PART OF MY birthday dinner this evening."†   (source)
  • Either way, my father had been affected by his given and almost-given names; he was forever quoting Tennyson or telling me in great detail a Sherlock Holmes plot.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were now fixed on her side of the ship, the narrowed upward slant of the bow, where it said "Cleva O'Conner Burns, wife of Afred Tennyson Burns, May 11, 1924," and then there were some blanks and Seymore had already filled in the "19" on her death.†   (source)
  • I was in high school and reading The Idylls of the King, and under Tennyson's influence I began to think of Laraine as a damsel to be rescued by a knight.†   (source)
  • "I wish I'd seen Tennyson make that fifty-eight last Thursday.†   (source)
  • Neither is the book which he now chooses the Tennyson: this time also he chooses food for a man.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, at hotels of ill-repute, he would register, with dark buried glee, as "Robert Browning," "Alfred Tennyson," and "William Wordsworth."†   (source)
  • But it was also, I guess, the convention, supported by the great men of the time, Carlyle, Tennyson, that men of genius were naturally uncontrolled.†   (source)
  • It is Tennyson.†   (source)
  • The great Doctor, whom of all men I most revere, swaying a little from side to side among the tables, the bound volumes, has dealt out Horace, Tennyson, the complete works of Keats and Matthew Arnold, suitably inscribed.†   (source)
  • He believed, like the man in Lord Tennyson, that people could only have the strength of ten on account of their hearts being pure.†   (source)
  • And here I found Tennyson was singing: There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate.†   (source)
  • An observer of the present day, who knew the Arthurian legend only from Tennyson and people of that sort, would have been startled to see that the famous lovers were past their prime.†   (source)
  • He must have been to her the perfect man; heroic; handsome;magnanimous; "the great Achilles, whom we knew" — it seems natural to quote Tennyson—and also genial, lovable, simple, and also her husband; and her children's father.†   (source)
  • Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Landor, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Morris, Rossetti, Swinburne—we may stop there.†   (source)
  • Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites would have found it difficult to recognize this rather sullen and unsatisfactory child, with the ugly face, who did not disclose to anybody that he was living on dreams and prayers.†   (source)
  • She was taught there to take such part as girls did then in the lives of distinguished men; to pour out tea; to hand them their strawberries and cream; to listen devoutly, reverently to their wisdom; to accept the fact that Watts was the great painter; Tennyson the great poet; and to dance with the Prince of Wales.†   (source)
  • Perhaps with the help of the poets one could… A book lay beside me and, opening it, I turned casually enough to Tennyson.†   (source)
  • Think of Tennyson; think but I need hardly multiply instances of the undeniable, if very fortunate, fact that it is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him.†   (source)
  • How easy it is to fill in the picture with set pieces that I have gathered from memoirs —to bring in Tennyson in his wideawake; Watts in his smock frock; Ellen Terry dressed as a boy; Garibaldi in his red shirt—and Henry Taylor turned from him to my mother—"the face of one fair girl was more to me" —so he says in a poem.†   (source)
  • But lay the blame where one will, on whom one will, the illusion which inspired Tennyson and Christina Rossetti to sing so passionately about the coming of their loves is far rarer now than then.†   (source)
  • And remembering the lunch party at Oxbridge, and the cigarette ash and the Manx cat and Tennyson and Christina Rossetti all in a bunch, it seemed possible that the impediment lay there.†   (source)
  • In a sort of jealousy, I suppose, for our own age, silly and absurd though these comparisons are, I went on to wonder if honestly one could name two living poets now as great as Tennyson and Christina Rossetti were then.†   (source)
  • Since her pin money, which depended on the goodwill of her father, was only enough to keep her clothed, she was debarred from such alleviations as came even to Keats or Tennyson or Carlyle, all poor men, from a walking tour, a little journey to France, from the separate lodging which, even if it were miserable enough, sheltered them from the claims and tyrannies of their families.†   (source)
  • —Lord Tennyson, of course, answered Heron.†   (source)
  • "That was to a great extent Tennyson's idea," came the lecturer's voice.†   (source)
  • Mr. Irons also read with me Tennyson's "In Memoriam."†   (source)
  • Tennyson came close to this in his "Lotus Eaters."†   (source)
  • "Say, are you mangling Tennyson or just kidding me?" she demanded slangily.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows that Tennyson is the greatest poet.†   (source)
  • Mrs. George Edwin Mott gave ten minutes to Tennyson and Browning.†   (source)
  • The lecturer was saying something about Tennyson's solidity and fifty heads were bent to take notes.†   (source)
  • "Swinburne's Song in the Time of Order might well have been Tennyson's title.†   (source)
  • At this Stephen forgot the silent vows he had been making and burst out: —Tennyson a poet!†   (source)
  • Another play I wish we could do is Tennyson Jesse's 'The Black Mask.'†   (source)
  • Carlyle and Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning, G. F. Watts, E. B. Jones, Dickens, Thackeray, they were hurried into the flames; Mr. Gladstone, John Bright, and Cobden; there was a moment's discussion about George Meredith, but Matthew Arnold and Emerson were given up cheerfully.†   (source)
  • We propose to furnish our own house according to our own taste; and I hereby give notice that the seven or eight travelling clocks, the four or five dressing cases, the salad bowls, the carvers and fish slices, the copy of Tennyson in extra morocco, and all the other articles you are preparing to heap upon us, will be instantly sold, and the proceeds devoted to circulating free copies of the Revolutionist's Handbook.†   (source)
  • I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey.†   (source)
  • Tennyson?†   (source)
  • They had studied Tennyson's poem in school the preceding winter, the Superintendent of Education having prescribed it in the English course for the Prince Edward Island schools.†   (source)
  • Teresa was very much annoyed, and left the table before the cheese, saying as she did so: 'There, Miss Lavish, is one who can confute you better than I,' and pointed to that beautiful picture of Lord Tennyson.†   (source)
  • He moved in the most intellectual circles: he read Browning with enthusiasm and turned up his well-shaped nose at Tennyson; he knew all the details of Shelley's treatment of Harriet; he dabbled in the history of art (on the walls of his rooms were reproductions of pictures by G. F. Watts, BurneJones, and Botticelli); and he wrote not without distinction verses of a pessimistic character.†   (source)
  • My fingers lighted upon a beautiful volume of Tennyson's poems, and when Miss Sullivan told me what it was I began to recite: Break, break, break On thy cold gray stones, O sea!†   (source)
  • —O, yes, Lord Tennyson, said Nash.†   (source)
  • With pity for his bewilderment, and a certain desire to giggle, she consoled him, "Then let's try some Tennyson.†   (source)
  • So he sat one day in an English lecture and heard "Locksley Hall" quoted and fell into a brown study with contempt for Tennyson and all he stood for—for he took him as a representative of the Victorians.†   (source)
  • He was humorously narrating some achievement to a group which included Nat Hicks, Del Snafflin, Bert Tybee the bartender, and A. Tennyson O'Hearn the shyster lawyer.†   (source)
  • "The Man Who Was Thursday," which he liked without understanding; "Stover at Yale," that became somewhat of a text-book; "Dombey and Son," because he thought he really should read better stuff; Robert Chambers, David Graham Phillips, and E. Phillips Oppenheim complete, and a scattering of Tennyson and Kipling.†   (source)
  • He had but one room: bare pine floor, small work-bench, wall bunk with amazingly neat bed, frying-pan and ash-stippled coffee-pot on the shelf behind the pot-bellied cannon-ball stove, backwoods chairs—one constructed from half a barrel, one from a tilted plank—and a row of books incredibly assorted; Byron and Tennyson and Stevenson, a manual of gas-engines, a book by Thorstein Veblen, and a spotty treatise on "The Care, Feeding, Diseases, and Breeding of Poultry and Cattle."†   (source)
  • It was the sort of afternoon that Tennyson must have been thinking about, when he said of the LotosEaters' land that it was a land where it was always afternoon.†   (source)
  • TENNYSON.†   (source)
  • Fitzgerald's blank verse seeks to sound traditional, avoiding the freer scansions that unrhymed pentameter took on in the nineteenth century when it was adapted for meditative poetry by Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning.†   (source)
  • And other lady friends from neighbour seats as Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet, sings.†   (source)
  • LORD TENNYSON: (Gentleman poet in Union Jack blazer and cricket flannels, bareheaded, flowingbearded) Theirs not to reason why.†   (source)
  • Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet.†   (source)
  • To Get the Final Lilt of Songs To get the final lilt of songs, To penetrate the inmost lore of poets—to know the mighty ones, Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Emerson; To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt— to truly understand, To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price, Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.†   (source)
  • …Cid, Roland at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen, The troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, skalds, Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds, The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays, Shakespeare, Schiller, Walter Scott, Tennyson, As some vast wondrous weird dream-presences, The great shadowy groups gathering around, Darting their mighty masterful eyes forward at thee, Thou! with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand and word, ascending, Thou!…†   (source)
  • …knights, Merlin and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv'd utterly like an exhalation; Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world, Embroider'd, dazzling, foreign world, with all its gorgeous legends, myths, Its kings and castles proud, its priests and warlike lords and courtly dames, Pass'd to its charnel vault, coffin'd with crown and armor on, Blazon'd with Shakspere's purple page, And dirged by Tennyson's sweet sad rhyme.†   (source)
  • [II] Had I the Choice Had I the choice to tally greatest bards, To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will, Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax, Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies, Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers; These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter, Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer, Or breathe one breath…†   (source)
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