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Dolorous Alfred, Lord Tennyson, always felt "dreadfully embarrassed" when he found himself alone with a woman. But when he paid a visit one day to dyspeptic Thomas Carlyle and found only Mrs. Carlyle at home, he was so promptly disembarrassed by her poise and charm that he stuffed a pipe brimful with stinking shag and harangued her happily for three solid hours, "exactly as if he were talking with a clever man." And Charles Dickens-to say nothing of Thackeray and John Stuart Mill-felt much the same way about Jane Carlyle. "None of the writing women," said Dickens, "came...
...College, Oxford, in the 1880s, the great Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett, translator of Plato and Master of Balliol College, was one of the most venerated and influential men in England; Gladstone and his Liberals seemed to be among the eternal forces in English politics, and the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne was much admired. In years to follow, if fewer & fewer men bore the hallmark of the Greek scholar and the classicist, it was not Gilbert Murray's fault...
...school . . . 'drifted from one dead-end job to another,' fell in with evil companions, and finally used a gun on a druggist during a holdup. As he awaited sentence, one of his former teachers reflected: 'I was a big help to that boy. I taught him Tennyson and compound verbs...
...implication of the personal responsibility of that teacher (not forgetting Tennyson and compound verbs) for Marty's inevitable end is unmistakable. Also unmistakable is the old technique that underlies such educational flapdoodle." The life-adjusters are "just as confident that a new phrase will solve problems that have plagued society for centuries ... as [their] predecessors ... of 'Education for Life,' 'Character Education,' 'Correlation and Integration,' 'Air-Age Education,' and 'Atomic-Age Education...
...philosophical poet he almost never crystallized the clouds of theistic faith that filled his head. The great Lord Acton spoke of "the airiness of his metaphysics, the indefiniteness of his knowledge, his neglect of transitions." His criticism was put more gaily by Algernon Swinburne in his parody of Tennyson's Higher Pantheism...