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...Alfred Tennyson has written a song of thanks-giving for the Queen's escape at the hands of MacLean...
...motto of Our Continent, "In that new world which is the old," from Tennyson's "Day Dream," is a good illustration of a quotation misquoted in an entirely different sense from the meaning of the expression in the original...
...Shepard's "Pen Pictures of Authors," to be published soon by the Putnams, will contain "A Visit to Tennyson," by M. D. Conway; "Recollections of Hawthorne," by Geo. Wm. Curtis; a paper on Prof. Lowell, by Justin McCarthy, and conversations with George Eliot, Jean Ingelow and Wm. Black...
...That is a poem by Tennyson...
After we had retired for the night to our respective rooms, the thought occurred to me that I would attempt to find out whether the report that Tennyson is guilty of - of snoring were true or not. So I crept softly from the room, - I think it was only the second-best chamber; however, I forgive them that, - I crept, I say, down the long corridor to the door of the apartment where the great man lay. I applied my ear to the key-hole. All was still; "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse," as the poet...