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Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes (1809-1892)
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About Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign, after William Wordsworth, and is one of the most popular English poets.
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“Unalterably and pesteringly fond.”
“A princelier-looking man never stept thro' a prince's hall.”
“Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!”
“The golden guess
Is morning-star to the full round of truth.”
Is morning-star to the full round of truth.”
“In statesmanship
To strike too soon is oft to miss the blow.”
To strike too soon is oft to miss the blow.”
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Doom 6 quotes
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson on King Arthur 6 quotes
“And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less, till Arthur came.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Faith 4 quotes
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Merlin 4 quotes
“I saw mage Merlin, whose vast wit And hundred winters are but as the hands Of loyal vassals toiling for their liege.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Mars 2 quotes
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Knowledge
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Guessing
“The golden guess Is morning-star to the full round of truth.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Lizards
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on East–West dichotomy
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Despair
“[I]t becomes no man to nurse despair, But in the teeth of clench'd antagonisms To follow up the worthiest till he die.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Fairies
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Authors
“Authors—essayist, atheist, novelist, realist, rhymester, play your part, Paint the mortal shame of nature with the living hues of art.”
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Virgil 6 quotes
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Charles George Gordon 2 quotes
“Warrior of God, man's friend—not here below, But somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan— Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know This earth hath borne no simpler, nobler man.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Catullus
“Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen-hundred years ago.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Thomas Malory
“Him of Malleor's, one Touch'd by the adulterous finger of a time That hover'd between war and wantonness, And crownings and dethronements.”
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Stephen Jay Gould on Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“[A]nswers to questions about ethical meaning cannot come from science. Tennyson... knew that the "good life"... required their successful integration. Tennyson called these two sources knowledge and reverence, personified as mind and soul. And he spoke of their union..."Let knowledge grow from more to more But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music, as before."”
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E. B. Osborn on Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“I don't suppose Arthur and his Cornish knights were as gentlemanly as Malorye made them, much less as genteel as Tennyson's heroes, epic shopwalkers in a well-decorated emporium of sentimentality.”
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Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady Ritchie on Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The news came to the village — the dire news which spread across the land, filling men's hearts with consternation — that Byron was dead. Tennyson was then about a boy of fifteen."Byron was dead! I thought the whole world was at an end," he once said, speaking of those bygone days. "I thought everything was over and finished for everyone — that nothing else mattered. I remembered I walked out alone, and carved 'Byron is dead' into the sandstone."”
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About Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign, after William Wordsworth, and is one of the most popular English poets.