A lot of Tennyson's poetry was based upon classical or mythical themes, although In Memoriam was contacted commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam, the poet as well as schoolmate from Trinity University in Cambridge and also who was involved to Tennyson's sis, yet passed away of a stroke.
One of Tennyson's most renowned works is Idylls of the King (1885), a collection of narrative rhymes based totally on King Arthur and also the Arthurian tales. The work was devoted to Prince Albert, Victoria's husband. Throughout his profession tried Lord Tennyson himself as a dramatist, his plays had little success even in his own lifetime.
A variety of phrases from Tennyson's poetry has actually entered and been common in the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and also claw", "better-to-have loved and also shed," "Their not to reason why,/ Their however to do and die, "as well as" My strength is as the toughness of 10,/ Because my heart is pure."
Tennyson was a great knowledgeable manufacturer in Wordsworth practice that showed playing the Victorian conventions, controlled by conservative nationalism and also choices. While there were assumptions that Tennyson would come to be the new Lord Byron, yet after time, nonetheless, minimized his significance.
Our collection contains 40 quotes who is written / told by Alfred, under the main topics: Dreams - Power - Experience.
"Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last"
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"
"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair"
"O earth, what changes hast thou seen!"
"Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die"
"God's finger touched him, and he slept"
"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself"
"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell"
"Love is the only gold"
"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home"
"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men"
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"
"Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself"
"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move"
"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times"
"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies"
"A day may sink or save a realm"
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within"
"Who is wise in love, love most, say least"
"What rights are those that dare not resist for them?"
"We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed"
"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure"
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power"
"Ring out the false, ring in the true"
"I am a part of all that I have met"
"He makes no friends who never made a foe"
"Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts"
"By blood a king, in heart a clown"
"Better not be at all than not be noble"
"Believe me, than in half the creeds"
"Authority forgets a dying king"
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds"
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions"
"Tis not too late to seek a newer world"
"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be"
"Its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change"
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"
"In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man"
"I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time"
