From an Island: A Story and Some Essays (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from From an Island: A Story and Some Essays

Oh, Captain Sigourney, I am very much obliged, said Lady Jane; and so the artless conversation went on.

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Excerpt from From an Island: A Story and Some Essays

Your name is loved and honoured in a Kingdom which extends far beyond the sleepy silver confines of the little Island where we have all been so happy at times, living round about your home. Allegiance to you comes as an inheritance to me and mine from one who was himself much loved, much honoured. The most generous and the greatest can render best tribute unto Caesar; others whose tribute is less worth, but who have lived under his kind and noble rule during long years of unchanging countenance and friendship, can at least love the name of Tennyson and write it with gratitude and tenderest respect.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.