 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 610 pages
...Tennyson when I was in London several times. He is undoubtedly the first of our living poets, and I hope will live to give the world still better things. You...pleased to hear that he expressed in the strongest possible terms his gratitude to lay writings. To this 1 was far from indifferent." ' In these 'Reminiscences'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 600 pages
...struck upon the weakness which the splendour of his robe of language not infrequently concealed : ' He is not much in sympathy with what I should myself...attempts, viz. the spirituality with which I have endeavoured to view the material universe, and the moral relations under which 1 have wished to exhibit... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 540 pages
...Tennyson, when I was in London, several times. He is decidedly the first of our living poets, and I hope will live to give the world still better things. You...attempts, viz., the spirituality with which I have endeavoured to invest the material universe, and the moral relations under which I have wished to exhibit... | |
 | John Wright (of Nottingham.) - 1851 - 388 pages
...hence, in a letter to a friend, he says " Tennyson is decidedly the first of our living poets." — " You will be pleased to hear that he expressed in the strongest terms his gratitude to my writings.'1'' To have attained what would seem to imply preeminence in the republic of letters, notwithstanding... | |
 | 1851 - 752 pages
...own early unpopularity. " Tennyson," he writes in 1845, "is decidedly the first of our living poets. You will be pleased to hear that he expressed in the strongest terms hie gratitude to my writings. To this I was far from indifferent, though persuaded that he is not much... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 pages
...Tennyson, when I was in London, several times. He is decidedly the first of our I living poets, and I hope will live to give the world still better things. You...attempts — viz., the spirituality with which I have endeavoured to invest the material universe, and the moral relations under which I have wished to exhibit... | |
 | John Wright - 1853 - 144 pages
...hence, in a letter to a friend, he says " Tennyson is decidedly the first of our living poets." — " You will be pleased to hear that he expressed in the...strongest terms his gratitude to my writings." To have attained what would seem to imply preeminence in the republic of letters, notwithstanding the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 pages
...and other heroines are adorned. Of Tennyson's earlier poems (up to 1845) Wordsworth said : " Tennyson is not much in sympathy with what I should myself most value . . . namely, the spirituality with which I have endeavoured to view the material universe, and the... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...strongest terms his gratitude to my writings. To this I was far from indifferent, though persuaded he is not much in sympathy with what I should myself...attempts — viz., the spirituality with which I have endeavoured to invest the material universe, and the moral relations under which I have wished to exhibit... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1871 - 832 pages
...Tennyson in London several ti'nee. He in decidedly the urst of our living poets, and 1 hope и ill give the world still better things. You will be pleased....strongest terms, his gratitude to my writings."— Wordsworth to Prf(f. Henry Seed, 1845. Since this joint venture, Alfred (who succeeded Wordsworth aá... | |
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I saw Tennyson, when I was in London, several times. He is decidedly the first of our living poets, and I hope will live to give the world still better things. You will be pleased to hear that he expressed in the strongest terms his gratitude to my writings.... 
