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A sinful soul possessed of many gifts, A spacious garden full of flowering weeds, A glorious devil, large in heart and brain. That did love beauty only, (beauty seen In all varieties of mould and mind,) And knowledge for its beauty; or if good, Good only for its beauty.
A sinful soul possessed of many gifts, A spacious garden full of flowering weeds, A glorious devil, large in heart and brain. That did love beauty only, (beauty seen In all varieties of mould and mind,) And knowledge for its beauty; or if good, Good only for its beauty.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Alfred Tennyson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 53 · printed citation: Tennyson · subject: BEAUTIFUL
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