A Commentary on Tennyson's In MemoriamMacmillan and Company, limited, 1915 - 251 pages |
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Adonais Ancient Sage appears Arthur Hallam Arthur Henry Hallam Author's note Beeching Christmas Christmastide CIII Collins compares connection contrast CXVIII CXXII CXXIV dark dead friend described divine doubt dream earth earthly edition Edmund Lushington Elegy Eloisa to Abelard Epilogue experience expressed faith fancy feeling Ferrall foll forget Gatty Gatty's gloom grief Hallam's death hope human idea imagined imply interpretation last stanza light living Locksley Hall Lord Tennyson LVII LXXII LXXVIII LXXXIX LXXXVI Lycidas meaning Memoir Memoriam memory merely metaphor nature passage perhaps periphrasis Petrarch phrase poem poet poet's mind poetry pre-existence present Princess probably Prologue quoted reader recall reference remember reminiscence round seems sense songs Sonnet Sonnet 59 sorrow soul spirit spring stanza suggested suppose thee things thou thought thro tion tone trance truth Voices whole words XCIII XCIX XLIV XLVII
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Page 149 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 123 - And he that shuts Love out, in turn shall be Shut out from Love, and on her threshold lie Howling in outer darkness.
Page 235 - Lord, to thee. Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair. I trust he lives in thee, and there I find him worthier to be loved.
Page 44 - Thy voice is on the rolling air; I hear thee where the waters run; Thou standest in the rising sun, And in the setting thou art fair. What art thou then? I cannot guess; But tho...
Page 123 - MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Page 227 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea!
Page 97 - There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up.
Page 227 - And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth ; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Page 231 - A saying, hard to shape in act ; For all the past of Time reveals A bridal dawn of thunder-peals, Wherever Thought hath wedded Fact. Ev'n now we hear with inward strife A motion toiling in the gloom — The Spirit of the years to come Yearning to mix himself with Life.
Page 147 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray...