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TENNYSONIANA.
"As torrent-rainbows, which appear
Still dwindling as we still draw near;
And yet contracting on the eye
Till the bright circling colours die."
p. 177.
Still dwindling as we still draw near;
And yet contracting on the eye
Till the bright circling colours die."
p. 177.
"Another lustrum will behold our youth
With eager eyes all panting after truth
Shrewd Spurzheim's visionary pages turn,
And, with Napoleon's bust before them, learn
Without the agency of what small bone
Quick-lime had ne'er upon a host been thrown:
In what rough rise a trivial sink had saved
The towns he burnt, the nations he enslaved."
Phrenology (p. 201).
With eager eyes all panting after truth
Shrewd Spurzheim's visionary pages turn,
And, with Napoleon's bust before them, learn
Without the agency of what small bone
Quick-lime had ne'er upon a host been thrown:
In what rough rise a trivial sink had saved
The towns he burnt, the nations he enslaved."
Phrenology (p. 201).
"Woe, woe to thee, Memphis."
God's Denunciations against Pharaoh-Hophra (p. 121).
God's Denunciations against Pharaoh-Hophra (p. 121).
"Her faith, like Stephen's, soften'd her distress;
Scarce less her anguish, scarce her patience less."
On the Death of my Grandmother (p. 99).
Scarce less her anguish, scarce her patience less."
On the Death of my Grandmother (p. 99).
