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TENNYSONIANA.
"As torrent-rainbows, which appear Still dwindling as we still draw near; And yet contracting on the eyeTill the bright circling colours die." p. 177.
"Another lustrum will behold our youth With eager eyes all panting after truth Shrewd Spurzheim's visionary pages turn, And, with Napoleon's bust before them, learn Without the agency of what small bone Quick-lime had ne'er upon a host been thrown: In what rough rise a trivial sink had saved The towns he burnt, the nations he enslaved." Phrenology (p. 201).
"Woe, woe to thee, Memphis."God's Denunciations against Pharaoh-Hophra (p. 121).
"Her faith, like Stephen's, soften'd her distress; Scarce less her anguish, scarce her patience less." On the Death of my Grandmother (p. 99).
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