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Alfred Lord Tennyson: Sonnet ("Oh, Beauty, passing beauty!")
Sonnet Oh, Beauty, passing beauty! sweetest Sweet! How canst thou let me waste my youth in sighs; I only ask to sit beside thy feet. Thou knowest I dare not look into thine eyes…Alfred Lord Tennyson: Song ("Who can say")
Song Who can say Why To-day To-morrow will be yesterday? Who can tell Why to smell The violet, recalls the dewy prime Of youth and buried time? The cause is nowhere found in…Alfred Lord Tennyson: Sonnet ("Blow ye the trumpet")
SonnetWritten on hearing of the outbreak of the Polish Insurrection. Blow ye the trumpet, gather from afar The hosts to battle: be not bought and sold. Arise, brave Poles, the…Rambaud, Alfred Nicolas
(Encyclopedia) Rambaud, Alfred NicolasRambaud, Alfred Nicolasälfrĕdˈ nēkôläˈ räNbōˈ [key], 1842–1905, French historian and politician. He served in the administration of Jules Ferry, was elected…Kinsey, Alfred Charles
(Encyclopedia) Kinsey, Alfred CharlesKinsey, Alfred Charleskĭnˈzē [key], 1894–1956, American biologist, b. Hoboken, N.J., grad. Bowdoin College (B.S., 1916), Harvard (D.Sc., 1920). He was associated…Jarry, Alfred
(Encyclopedia) Jarry, AlfredJarry, Alfredälfrĕdˈ zhärēˈ [key], 1873–1907, French author. He was well known in Paris for his eccentric and dissolute behavior and for his insistence on the superiority…Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules
(Encyclopedia) Ayer, Sir Alfred JulesAyer, Sir Alfred Julesāˈər, âr [key], 1910–89, British philosopher, b. London, grad. Oxford, 1932. From 1933 to 1944 he was lecturer and research fellow at Oxford…Noyes, Alfred
(Encyclopedia) Noyes, AlfredNoyes, Alfrednoiz [key], 1880–1958, English poet, best known for his poems “The Highwayman” and “The Barrel-Organ.” His first volume of verse, Loom of Years, appeared in…Marshall, Alfred
(Encyclopedia) Marshall, Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist. At Cambridge, where he taught from 1885 to 1908, he exerted great influence on the development of economic thought of the time; one of…Athelstan
(Encyclopedia) Athelstan or ÆthelstanÆthelstanboth: ăthˈəlstən, ăthˈĕlstän [key], d. 939, king of Wessex (924–39), son and successor of Edward the Elder. After coming to the throne, he vigorously…Trending
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