 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1898 - 924 pages
...bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write. TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH You did late review my lays, Crust y Christopher; You did mingle blame and praise, Rusty...Christopher. When I learnt from whom it came, I forgave yon all the blame, Musty Christopher; I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. V. OTHER DISCARDED... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 276 pages
...head of "Juvenilia." The following little hit at Christopher North has not been thus reinstated : " You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher ;...could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher." For the next ten years (1833-1842) Tennyson published almost nothing. The Lover's Tale was printed... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...resented the criticism ; and in a volume published a little later, we find the following reply : — " You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher ;...could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher." Among the pleasing lyrics in this volume are " Lilian," " Recollections of the Arabian Nights," and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1899 - 1002 pages
...two such couches soft and white, Not any room so warm and bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write. TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH You did late review my lays,...Crusty Christopher ; You did mingle blame and praise, Rustr Christopher. When 1 learnt from whom it came, I forgave yon all the blame, Musty Christopher... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 392 pages
...two such couches soft and white ; Not any room so warm and bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write. TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH You did late review my lays,...I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. THE SKIPPING ROPE This silly poem was first published in the edition of 1842, and was retained unaltered... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 358 pages
...two such couches soft and white ; Not any room so warm and bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write. TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH You did late review my lays,...I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. THE SKIPPING ROPE This silly poem was first published in the edition of 1842, and was retained unaltered... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1903 - 224 pages
...couches soft and white; Not any room so warm and bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write. XXXVII To Christopher North You did late review my lays,...I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. XXXVIII The Lotos-Eaters [These forty lines formed the conclusion of the original (1833) version of... | |
 | John Louis Haney - Criticism - 1904 - 304 pages
...corroboration of Mr. Tennyson, that we did not see in any of them anything like this little room. so exquis1TE. The second of the lighter pieces, and the last with...Christopher; I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher.'—p. 153. Was there ever anything so genteelly turned—so terse —so sharp—and the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1905 - 910 pages
...first volume of verse. Familiar though the lines must be to many, they will bear repetition here. 4 You did late review my lays. Crusty Christopher; You...could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher.' This must have been dictated by somewhat the same feeling that led the Greek orator, on hearing himself... | |
 | Morton Luce - English poetry - 1895 - 474 pages
...Tennyson was sneered at as "the pet of a cockney coterie." The following is part of the poet's reply : "When I learnt from whom it came, I forgave you all...Musty Christopher ; I could not forgive the praise, Fu.ity Christopher." This is smart and amusing ; but Tennyson was too great to make capital of any... | |
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TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH. You did late review my lays, Crusty Christopher; You did mingle blame and praise, Rusty Christopher. When I learnt from whom it came, I forgave you all the blame, Musty Christopher ; I could not forgive the praise, Fusty Christopher. 
