Tennyson's The PrincessGinn, 1898 - 187 pages |
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Page xvii
... once be touched , and at once the stream of humor flows bright and free . How sweetly , for instance , it ripples through the poem of The Princess ! Do you not feel as you listen - to its placid murmur that already , well - CRITICAL ...
... once be touched , and at once the stream of humor flows bright and free . How sweetly , for instance , it ripples through the poem of The Princess ! Do you not feel as you listen - to its placid murmur that already , well - CRITICAL ...
Page xviii
... Blanche and Lady Psyche , of Cyril , of the two Kings , and even of one or two others . And that unequaled dream - faculty of his , which has been more than once glanced at , enabled him to carry off whatever was xviii INTRODUCTION .
... Blanche and Lady Psyche , of Cyril , of the two Kings , and even of one or two others . And that unequaled dream - faculty of his , which has been more than once glanced at , enabled him to carry off whatever was xviii INTRODUCTION .
Page xxi
... once observed that he knew no task more instructive than to compare Virgil's adaptations of Homer with the original passages to note what details he rejected , what he added , what he softened down , what he thought proper to heighten ...
... once observed that he knew no task more instructive than to compare Virgil's adaptations of Homer with the original passages to note what details he rejected , what he added , what he softened down , what he thought proper to heighten ...
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... once admitted half regretfully that ' the public did not see that the child was the heroine ' of the poem , not Princess Ida . The fate of Psyche's babe is the pivot upon which the whole story 6 revolves . It is Psyche's babe who ...
... once admitted half regretfully that ' the public did not see that the child was the heroine ' of the poem , not Princess Ida . The fate of Psyche's babe is the pivot upon which the whole story 6 revolves . It is Psyche's babe who ...
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... once more foiled , is on the eve of angrily breaking up this world and beginning it all over again . Such is not the philosophy of our poet . He speaks in his own person in the epilogue . He says : For me the genial day , the happy ...
... once more foiled , is on the eve of angrily breaking up this world and beginning it all over again . Such is not the philosophy of our poet . He speaks in his own person in the epilogue . He says : For me the genial day , the happy ...
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Æneid agrin answer Arac arms babe Bayard Taylor beauty brows canto catalepsy child Collins criticizes Cyril dark daughter Dawson says dead death dream echoes Edited by Professor English Enone expression eyes father Florian flowers follow golden hall Hallam Tennyson hand head heard heart Heaven Homer Idyll Iliad king kissed Lady Blanche Lady Psyche light Lilia lips literature living looked Love's Labor's Lost Luce maiden maids medley Melissa Memoriam morning mother moved Nature night noble o'er once ourself palace Palace of Art Paradise Lost passage periphrasis Pindar poem poet poet's poetic poetry Prince Princess Princess Ida Prol Psyche's Rolfe rose sang seemed shadow Shakespeare simile song soul spake speak star stood sweet tears Tennyson thee Theocritus thou thought thro true truth verse Virgil voice Wallace wild wind Winter's Tale woman women word
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Page 159 - solemn close " — but almost all the other excellencies of poetry; and it contains nothing but such excellencies.' 4. Sweet order. Why sweet? 6. Low voices. Cf. King Lear V. iii. 273-4 : Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low — an excellent thing in woman. 8-10. She . . . treble. How often this may be observed
Page 71 - CEnone 147-8 : And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. 147. Head and heart. Cf. V. 439. 148. Cf. II. 31-2. He ceasing, came a message from the Head. ' That afternoon the Princess rode to take The dip of certain strata to the North. Would we go with her? we should find the land
Page 166 - And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. 153. Graces. The Homeric Hymn has ' Hours': Her lovingly the golden Hours received, And clad in robes immortal; and they set Upon her head divine a golden crown, etc. 154-5.
Page 167 - Now slides the Silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. 170 Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of .the lake; So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.' I heard her turn the page; she found a small
Page 12 - Arthur: The bare black cliff clanged round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels. 182. Walks. Avenues of trees. 184. Wassail. Drinking of healths. From OE. wes
Page 176 - Field 373-7 : He believed This filthy marriage-hindering Mammon made The harlot of the cities ; nature crossed Was mother of the foul adulteries That saturate soul with body. With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Page xli - until the habits of the slave, The sins of emptiness, gossip and spite And slander, die. She ended here, and beckoned us ; the rest Parted ; and, glowing full-faced welcome, she Began to address us, and was moving on In gratulation, till as when a boat Tacks, and the slackened sail
Page 46 - 151. Oasis. Pronounce. Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropped for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind;
Page 178 - Reels, as the golden Autumn woodland reels Athwart the smoke of burning weeds. Forgive me, I waste my heart in signs ; let be. My bride, My wife, my life. O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end,
Page 54 - Melissa, with her hand upon the lock, A rosy blonde, and in a college gown That clad her like an April daffodilly (Her mother's color), with her lips apart, And all her thoughts as fair within her eyes 305 As bottom agates, seen to wave and float In crystal currents of clear morning seas. 295. Gracious dews. Cf.