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Ring out the Old, Ring in the New by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

For Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christmas was a time to let the dead past bury its dead.

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The Last Gladiator : The people of Rome suddenly turned their back on centuries of ‘sport’ - all because of one harmless old man.
The Gift of Life : When columnist ‘Alpha of the Plough’ was asked to select his most memorable moment of the Great War, he told the story of HMS Formidable.
The Founding of Australia : Within little more than half a century a British penal colony turned into a prosperous, free-trade democracy.
Ring out the Old, Ring in the New : For Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christmas was a time to let the dead past bury its dead.
Cuthbert’s Christmas : One Christmas Eve back in the twelfth century, a monk keeping midnight vigil in Lindisfarne priory watched spellbound as two great doors opened all by themselves.
The Two Shakespeares : Arthur Clutton-Brock complained that idealising Shakespeare had made him dull.
Fairway : Use each noun below in two sentences, first as the subject, and then as the object of a verb.
England Expects : Lieutenant John Pasco not only flew the most famous signal in British history, he helped write it.
Running Late : Use these adverbial clauses in your own sentences.
Peggy’s Dog : Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
An Interruption : Report this conversation without using direct speech.
Tender Plants : Prince Albert regretted the destructive power of the Art Critic.
Lost for Words : Join these ideas together into a single sentence, using ‘although’ or ‘though’.
Loan Words : Match these words to the language they come from, whether Old Norse, Malay or Welsh.
Evidence : Join these ideas together to form a single sentence, using the relative pronoun ‘who’.
Fatal Vow : Robert Pierrepont called heaven to witness that he would never pick a side in the Civil War.
Lost and Found : What would you in these difficult situations?
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