Alfred Tennyson

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“Roman Virgil, thou that singest
Ilion’s lofty temples robed in fire,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Can I think of her as dead, and love her for the love she bore?
No—she never loved me truly: love is love for evermore.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)