Sublime

In short, unless pilots are to be permitted to ram ships on to the rocks and then say that heaven is the only true harbour; unless judges are to be allowed to let murderers loose, and explain afterwards that the murder had done good on the whole; unless soldiers are to be allowed to lose battles and then point out that true glory is to be found in

provisional,

This particular compromise between contempt and hope was an accident of Tennyson’s time, and, like his liberal conservatism, will probably never be found again.

poor lived in a world of "make believe" and achieved "greater and greater flights of imagination."

He was even in many ways very modern, which some rather erroneously suppose to be the same as being human;

ursine.

Presque tout ce que mes voisins appellent le bien, je crois de toute mon âme que c’est le mal, et si je me repens de quelque chose c’est sans aucun doute de ma bonne conduite.