Independent Sixth Reader (Volume 6); Containing a Complete Treatise on Elocution, Both Scientific and Practical Illustrated With Diagrams, Select and ... Copious Notes, and a Full Supplementary Index - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... With kisses, round him closed and claspt again. But Lionel, when at last he freed himself From wife and child, and lifted up a face All over glowing with the sun of life, And love, and boundless thanks--the sight of this So frighted our good friend, that turning to mo And saying, "It is over: let us go"--There were our horses ready at the doors--We b&de them no farewell, but mounting these He past forever from his native land; And I with him, my Julian, back to mine. Tennyson. Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England, the eon of a clergyman, was bom in Lincolnshire, in 1810. He received his university education at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first volume of poems was published in 1830; his second, three years afterward. Some of his early minor pieces, as well as his selections from " The Princess," are simple, true to nature, and exquisitely beautiful. "In Memoriam," one of his most characteristic poems, is the most important contribution which has yet been given to what may strictly be entitled Elegiac Poetry. It first appeared in 1850, nearly twenty years after the death of young Hallam, the eon of the celebrated historian, to whom he was bound by many endearing ties, and to whose memory the work is a tribute. Careful study, and reflection on the reader's own inmost being, are required to fully reveal the imaginative power, the wisdom, and the spiritual beauty of this work. The poet's early fame is fully sustained by Mb later writings. "Idyls of the King," for vigor, exquisite utterance, and varied interest, is probably inferior to no corresponding poem in any language. His latest volume, "The Holy Grail, and Other Poems," from which the above is selected, was published in 1870. In person, the poet is of dark complexion and imposing stature and app...