. Little journeys to the homes of English authors. Alfred Tennyson . 66. T was at Cambridge he metArthur Hallam—Arthur Hal-lam, immortal and rememberedalone for being the comrade &friend of took his friend Arthur tohis home in Lincolnshire onevacation, and we know howArthur became enamored ofTennysons sister Emily, andthey were betrothed. Together, Tennyson and Hallammade a trip through France and the and Milburn, the blind preacher, once sat smok-ing in the little arbor back of the house in Cheyne had been talking of Tennyson, and after a longsilence
. Little journeys to the homes of English authors. Alfred Tennyson . 66. T was at Cambridge he metArthur Hallam—Arthur Hal-lam, immortal and rememberedalone for being the comrade &friend of took his friend Arthur tohis home in Lincolnshire onevacation, and we know howArthur became enamored ofTennysons sister Emily, andthey were betrothed. Together, Tennyson and Hallammade a trip through France and the and Milburn, the blind preacher, once sat smok-ing in the little arbor back of the house in Cheyne had been talking of Tennyson, and after a longsilence Carlyle knocked the ashes out of his pipe, andwith a grunt said, Ha! Death is a great blessing—thejoyousest blessing of all 1 Without death there wouldha been no In Memoriam, no Hallam and likeenough, no Tennyson! ^ It is futile to figure whatwould have occurred had this or that not happened,since every act of life is a sequence. But that Carlyle &many others believed that the death of Hallam was themaking of Tennyson, there is no doubt. Possibly hissoul n
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