Oriana

⁂ Queen Elizabeth is called “the peerless Oriana,” especially in the madrigals entitled _The Triumphs of Oriana_ (1601).

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Leave those who only use words, such as Oriana, be left alone to scribble and rail.

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Leave those who only use words, such as Oriana, be left alone to scribble and rail.

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Tennyson before he went up to Oxford, but reserved an unqualified admiration only for such things as "Oriana" and "The Lady of Shalott."

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

Jill readily consented to be comforted, Miss Rosalind as stubbornly refused, and protested a score of times that the cabin of the "Oriana" itself was preferable to the misery of being condemned, as she termed it, to eat her head off in this dismal place.

Roger Ingleton, Minor Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Tom, in fact, was at that moment debating somewhere about a mile and a half away whether he should not try to make his way to the "Oriana" at the Docks, and remain quietly there till claimed.

Roger Ingleton, Minor Talbot Baines Reed 1872

That afternoon the two friends took the train to London, where, considerably to the relief of both, they heard that the "Oriana" was not expected in dock for three days.

Roger Ingleton, Minor Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Even so, it was as much as he could do to shake off his cold sufficiently on the morning of the arrival of the "Oriana" to accompany his tutor to the Dock to greet his unknown kinsfolk.

Roger Ingleton, Minor Talbot Baines Reed 1872

On the morning before the "Oriana" was due, Mrs Ingleton suggested to her son that it would be a polite thing if he were to go to town and meet the travellers on their arrival.

Roger Ingleton, Minor Talbot Baines Reed 1872

This is seen in the magical touches of description, in the exquisite felicity of expression and rhythm which frequently mark them, in the pathos and power of such a poem as 'Oriana', in the pathos and charm of such poems as 'Mariana' and

The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850