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Now watching the magnificent Young and Innocent (1937), another classic from Hitchcock's 1930s productions. There are several versions on youtube.
Nova Pilbeam beautifully conveys the supreme self-confidence of a well brought-up girl from the British upper middle classes, who is forced by circumstances to break all the rules. A most civilised version of anarchism!
Wikipedia tells me that Pilbeam stopped making films in the 1940s but lived until 2015. Her first husband was a great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Connections, connections!
#AlfredHitchcock #YoungAndInnocent #NovaPilbeam #AlfredLordTennyson #TheUpperClasses
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I've been lucky recently in finding things hidden within the leaves of old books (not money, unfortunately! 🙂). I discovered this clipping from an old newspaper (signed in 1949) in this 1962 edition of The Pre-Eminent Victorian by Joanna Richardson. Anyone good at reading old signatures? 🧐 #Tennyson #AlfredLordTennyson #Books #Biographies #History #Poetry
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.The full poem: https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-ring-out-wild-bells
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The Story Behind "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden and the Real-Life Battle that Inspired It
One of the most distinctive elements of Iron Maiden's music is that mid-tempo to fast-paced gallop one hears in numerous songs throughout their 17-album catalog. That sound became reinforced in American listeners minds with the release of the bands fourth...
https://americansongwriter.com/the-story-behind-the-trooper-by-iron-maiden-and-the-real-life-battle-that-inspired-it/#IronMaiden #TheTrooper #PieceofMind #ChargeOfTheLightBrigade #AlfredLordTennyson
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“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
#AlfredLordTennyson
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Gustave Doré illustration of "Idylls of the King" (1868) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. #GustaveDoré #GustaveDore #illustration #Alfred,LordTennyson #AlfredLordTennyson
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1854 narrative poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ tells of the heroic charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. Published on 9 December 1854 in ‘The Examiner’ — part of the second verse —
“… Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”
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The Tennyson family at Tealby did have a very high opinion of themselves, but they did, in fact, have a justifiable, if somewhat distant connection to nobility in the form of the ancient families of d’aincourt and Lovel which they cashed in on. From 1835 they used Tennyson d’Eyncourt as their surname.
In celebration of this they had this beautiful window added to the east end of the village church. This was done not only to mark themselves out above the rest, but so they could distinguish themselves from Alfred’s lot at Somersby.
#19thcentury #lincolnshire #tealby #lincolnshirevillages #church #churcharchitecture #stainedglass #tennyson #oneupmanship #daincoirt #lovel #nobility #alfredlordtennyson #poet #somersby #lincolnshirefamilies
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