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TENNYSONIANA.
"He gave the people of his best:
His worst he kept: his best he gave:
My Shakespeare's curse on clown and knave[1]
Who will not let his ashes rest."
His worst he kept: his best he gave:
My Shakespeare's curse on clown and knave[1]
Who will not let his ashes rest."
Third, in the opening stanza of the lines entitled "The New Timon and the Poets"—
"We know him out of Shakespeare's art,
And those fine curses that he spoke,
The old Timon, with his noble heart,
That strongly loathing, greatly broke."
And those fine curses that he spoke,
The old Timon, with his noble heart,
That strongly loathing, greatly broke."
Fourth, in the Prologue to "The Princess"—
"This were a medley! we should have him back
Who told the Winter's Tale to do it for us."
Who told the Winter's Tale to do it for us."
Fifth, in the Sonnet addressed to Macready on his retirement from the stage in 1851:
"Farewell, Macready; moral, grave, sublime.
Our Shakespeare's bland and universal eye
Dwells, pleased, thro' twice a hundred years, on thee."
Our Shakespeare's bland and universal eye
Dwells, pleased, thro' twice a hundred years, on thee."
And sixth and last Shakespeare is mentioned in the
- ↑ This third line, however, originally stood thus:
"My curse upon the clown and knave."
