Word: tennysons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor. Since 1917 he has been an Associate Professor. Besides this book, Professor Copeland has written several articles in the Atlantic Monthly and "The Life of Edwin Booth", besides editing "The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his Youngest Sister", with an introductory essay, in collaboration with Mr. Rideout on Tennyson's "The Princess...
Selecting only twenty-six names from the galaxy of genius which the nineteenth century brought forth, he includes only one Englishman among them. This fortunate is Sir Walter Scott. With a Pecksniffian wave of his hand, he disposes of all the array of poetic brilliance from Wordsworth to Tennyson. It is evident on the face of it that Signor Croce has not written a history of European literature in the nineteenth century...
...then, occasionally, some Cabinet officer, standing on the Western shore, will rattle his sabre like a new toy recently given him. Extinguishment is placed upon him; and silence reigns supreme once more. It all reminds me of nothing so much as the words of Tennyson...
...whom he had sold his mansion found diamonds in the stream that watered the garden, thus discovering the famed mines of the Golconda. Taking the thread of this tale, Dr. Conwell elaborated it with over 30 minor anecdotes. He quoted Bailey, the Bible, Garfield, Grant, Robert E. Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson. In his delivery, he incorporated every known artifice of the pulpit, the stump and the vaudeville stage. He larded his sentences with such aphorisms...
...argument of the opposition that Tennyson wrote, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" on a typewriter is exceedingly convincing although another asserts that nothing but asprin advertisements or "vers libre" is possible. The sanest opinion seems to be that while in some cases; the noise is disturbing the clearness with which the matter is set forth promotes "terseness, clearness and structural lucidity." And it is certainly true that in case where the writer's chirography is immoderately bad, the legibility of type adds to the case of revision...