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Title: Alfred Lord Tennyson; a study of his life and work
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Waugh, Arthur, 1866-1943
Subjects: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Publisher: London Heinemann
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s more tenderly than hisachievements. As near perfection as mortal man can be,said Alfred Tennyson : and the singular sweetness of hisdisposition seems to have left a keener impression on hiscontemporaries than all the lore and logic which he broughtfrom the schools. Henry Alford shared Tennysons en-thusiasm : His was such a lovely nature that life seemedto have nothing more to teach him. With Hallam were 22. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON many others, who soon became numbered in the list ofTennysons closest friends. Richard Monckton Miinesand R. C. Trench, W. H. Thompson (afterwards Master of Trinity)and J.-,-ji»M ^ Blakesley. F. D. Maurice,and JamesS p e d d i n g,Henry Alford,Charles Meri-vale, G. S.Venables, E.R. Kennedy,and E. Lush-ington were allmembers ofthe societyknown asTheApostleat thetime that Ten-r-r^ nyson joinedit. This asso-ciation^startedsome eightyears pre-viously, andlimited totwelve mem-bers, was, andI believe is, asmall debatingsociety v>rhichhas drawn toitself all the
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HALLAMS rooms, new court, TRlNIl v. the college. They held discussions: A bandOf youthful friends, on mind and art,And labour, and the changing mart.And all the framework of the land ; brightest liter-ary promise of I CAMBRIDGE 23 And one would aim an arrow fair. But send it slackly from the string, And one would pierce an outer ringAnd one an inner, here and there ; And last the master bowman, he Would cleave the mark. A willing earWe lent him. Who but hung to hear The rapt oration flowing free From point to point with power and grace And music in the bounds of law. To those conclusions when we sawThe God within him light his face? Hallam was the foremost of Tennysons friends, but inpoint of time he was not actually the first. On the veryday on which he came up to Cambridge Tennyson wascaught by a face which charmed him at first sight, anddrew from him the remark : That looks the best-temperedfellow I ever saw. The best-tempered fellow was Milnes,iind the friendship whichTennyson cov

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