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  • Lady Reveller shrieks with horror to learn that Valeria had dissected her dove “to see whether it is true that doves lack gall.”

    VIRTUOSO MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

  • 'The Strayed Reveller' coexisting with the zealous inspector of schools; in William Morris we find it hard to reconcile the creative craftsman with the fervent apostle of social discontent.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • His other works are _The Strayed Reveller_, and _Empedocles on

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

  • _A Belated Reveller_ (_lurching up to Mr.F. _) Beg your pardon, bur cou 'you dreck me nearesht way -- er -- Dawshon Plashe?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891 Various

  • So through an atmosphere you will link (let me say) Collins’s Ode to Evening, or Matthew Arnold’s Strayed Reveller up to the Pervigilium Veneris, Mr Sturge Moore’s Sicilian Vine-dresser up to Theocritus, Pericles’ funeral oration down to Lincoln’s over the dead at Gettysburg.

    VII. The Value of Greek and Latin in English Literature 1920

  • But it was recognized, and he himself had never any real doubt of it, from the moment when he sent the “Strayed Reveller” to my father in New Zealand in 1849, to those later times when his growing fame was in all men's ears.

    Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

  • One wonders if the reader, too, knows and loves, that strange fragmentary unrhymed poem, called "the Strayed Reveller," with its vision of Circe and the sleeping boy-faun, and the wave-tossed

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Macaulay printed the first two volumes of his "History of England," while Matthew Arnold brought out his "Strayed Reveller" and other poems.

    A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

  • Strayed Reveller_ volume should have attracted so little attention.

    Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

  • As for _Consolation_, which in form as in matter strongly resembles part of the _Strayed Reveller_, I must say, at the risk of the charge of Philistinism, that I cannot see why most of it should not have been printed as prose.

    Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

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