Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quote

In the end I accepted the honour, because during dinner Venables told me, that, if I became Poet Laureate, I should always when I dined out be offered the liver-wing of a fowl.

On being made Poet Laureate in 1850

in Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by his Son (1897) vol. 1


In the end I accepted the honour, because during dinner Venables told me, that, if I became Poet Laureate, I should always when I dined out be...

In the end I accepted the honour, because during dinner Venables told me, that, if I became Poet Laureate, I should always when I dined out be...

In the end I accepted the honour, because during dinner Venables told me, that, if I became Poet Laureate, I should always when I dined out be...

In the end I accepted the honour, because during dinner Venables told me, that, if I became Poet Laureate, I should always when I dined out be...