 Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels. — And on a sudden, lo !...  The Holy Grail and Other Poems - Seite 141von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 202 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1913 - 878 Seiten
...flight of stairs. Daniel clattered slowly and carefully up them, basing his feet, like Sir Bedivere, on "Juts of slippery crag that rang sharp-smitten with the dint of arm€d heels." We had reached the top in safety when I heard a thin and wavering squeal behind me,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 Seiten
...clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon. Tlien saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 Seiten
...cla-=h'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon." The two last lines place you on the very spot: you see it almost with your bodily eyes. And marvellous... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 Seiten
...clashed his harness in the icy caves and barren chasms, and all to left and right the bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based his feet on juts of...heels — and on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, and tho long glories of the winter moon. Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, dark as a funeral... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 Seiten
...clas1i'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right Ml The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Heneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled,... | |
 | 1856 - 416 Seiten
...clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels ; do we not seem to burst from the narrow steep path down the ravine, whose tall precipitous sides... | |
 | 1855 - 338 Seiten
...clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels ; do we not seem to burst from the narrow steep path down the ravine, whose tall precipitous sides... | |
 | George Brimley - 1858 - 376 Seiten
...harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang' d round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery...that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels ; do we not seem to burst from the narrow steep path down the ravine, whose tall precipitous sides... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1859 - 356 Seiten
...harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare, black cliffs clanged round him as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag, that rang, Sharp smitten with the dint of armed heels, Till, on a sudden, lo ! the level lake And the long glories... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 Seiten
...clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of...level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon." The two last lines place you on the very spot: you see it almost with your bodily eyes. And marvellous... | |
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