TennysonMacmillan, 1902 - 200页 This volume offers an appraisal of Tennyson's work by a British literary historian. |
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afterwards Alfred Tennyson Anacaona ancient Arthur Arthur Hallam artist beauty blank verse Byron Carlyle century character Coleridge colour composition criticism death divine dramatic dream emotion England English poet English poetry Enoch Arden Enone faith Farringford feeling FitzGerald friends genius give grief Guinevere Hallam human ideas Idylls imagination impression incidents intellectual Iseult King King Arthur Lady of Shalott Lancelot land language later legends letter light lines living Locksley Hall lyrical Mary Maud meditations Memoir Memoriam metaphor metre metrical mind modern moral natural never night noble pass passages passion philosophic pieces play poet poet's poetic poetry politics popular prose Queen religion rhyme Rizpah romance scene scientific shadow Shakespeare Shelley Sir Ector Somersby song soul spirit stanzas story style Tenny Tennyson Tennyson's poem things thought tion Tiresias told tone touch truth Ulysses vision words Wordsworth writes wrote
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第57页 - Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
第72页 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the conquer'd years To one that with us works, and trust, With faith that comes of self-control, The truths that never can be proved Until we close with all we loved, And all we flow from, soul in soul.
第142页 - Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the narrow house, 'The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : ' Might I not say? 'Yet even here, But for one hour, O Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive...
第92页 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
第123页 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
第50页 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
第139页 - What are men that He should heed us? cried the king of sacred song; Insects of an hour, that hourly work their brother insect wrong, While the silent Heavens roll, and Suns along their fiery way, All their planets whirling round them, flash a million miles a day.
第113页 - LONG lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a moulder'd church; and higher A long street climbs to one tall-tower'd mill; And high in heaven behind it a gray down With Danish barrows; and a hazelwood, By autumn nutters haunted, flourishes Green in a cuplike hollow of the down.
第144页 - The first gray streak of earliest summer-dawn, The last long stripe of waning crimson gloom, As if the late and early were but one — A height, a broken grange, a grove, a flower Had murmurs "Lost and gone and lost and gone!
第97页 - I chose the history of King Arthur as most fit for the excellency of his person, being made famous by many men's former works, and also furthest from the danger of envy and suspicion of present time.