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| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 pages
...the man of amplest influence, Yet clearest of ambitious crime, Our greatest yet with least preteice, Great in council and great in war, Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, Tn his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all... | |
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| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 200 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
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| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
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| English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...the man of amplest influ enee, Yet clearest of ambitious crime. Our greatest yet with least pretenee, Great in council and great in war. Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense. And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...Mourn for the man of amplest iuflu ence, Yet clearest of ambitious crime, Our greatest yet with lea»t pretence, Great in council and great in war, Foremost captain of his lime, liieh in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. О good... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...in himself, a common good. Mourn for the man of amplest influence, Yet clearest of ambitious crime, Our greatest yet with least pretence, Great in council...war, Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. O good gray head which all... | |
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