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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It becomes no...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It becomes no...

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Like a dog,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Like a dog,...

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall,
Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Music that gentlier...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Music that gentlier...

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Light shall spread,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Light shall spread,...

Light shall spread, and man be liker man
Thro' all the season of the golden year.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The kindly earth...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The kindly earth...

The kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.

Source: Locksley Hall,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Someone had blundered:<br>Theirs...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Someone had blundered:
Theirs...

Someone had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The long day...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The long day...

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The folly of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The folly of...

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: She only said,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: She only said,...

She only said, `My life is dreary,
He cometh not,' she said:
She said, `I am aweary, aweary,
I would that I...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Whatever crazy sorrow...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Whatever crazy sorrow...

Whatever crazy sorrow saith,
No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for...

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Alexander Pope: Right well mine...

Alexander Pope: Right well mine...

Right well mine eyes arede the myster wight,
On parchment scraps y-fed and Wormius...

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Alexander Pope: Nor in the...

Alexander Pope: Nor in the...

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

Source: An Essay on Criticism.
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Alexander Pope: Not to admire,...

Alexander Pope: Not to admire,...

Not to admire, is all the art I know
To make men happy, and to keep them so.


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Alexander Pope: Order is Heaven's...

Alexander Pope: Order is Heaven's...

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed,
Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,
More rich, more...

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Alexander Pope: See how the...

Alexander Pope: See how the...

See how the world its veterans rewards!
A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.


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Alexander Pope: Vice is a...

Alexander Pope: Vice is a...

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her...

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Alexander Pope: We bring to...

Alexander Pope: We bring to...

We bring to one dead level ev'ry mind.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk iv. 268
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Alexander Pope: `With every pleasing,...

Alexander Pope: `With every pleasing,...

`With every pleasing, every prudent part,
Say, what can Chloe want?' - She wants a...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: As thro' the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: As thro' the...

As thro' the land at eve we went,
And plucked the ripened ears,
We fell out, my wife and I,
O we fell out I...

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Oscar Wilde: The critic has...

Oscar Wilde: The critic has...

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Source:...

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