Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRSwas Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets... (wikipedia)
All the charm of all the Muses/ often flowering in a lonely word.
And curving a contumelious,Gorgonized me from head to foot,With a stony British stare
The lawless science of the law, that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances