Tennyson's Queen Mary

Excerpt from Tennyson's Queen Mary: A Criticism England's greatest ministers: the other by her Poet Laureate. It is impossible there could be a wider contrast than that between the form and substance of Mr. Gladstone's work, Rome, and the Newest Fashions in Religion, and the form and substance of Mr. Tennyson's drama, Queen Mary yet, differing widely as they do in these particulars, they have one thing in common. Both of them are well calculated to arouse and foster a lively detestation of Rome and all her works. They show in a striking manner that the toleration of which we hear so much is but the talk of the lips, and that, disguise it how we may, hatred still rankles in the heart. We may offer the hand in friendship, but, do what we will, the memory of the past steals over us, and the hand will not close. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.