 Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it....  Russell's Magazine - Seite 548herausgegeben von - 1859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1898 - 312 Seiten
...variety of nature. In the Idyls of thc King, too, the phrasing seems labored. Consider this from Enid: "And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it."... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 382 Seiten
...by either) the new sun Beat thro' the blindless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside,...his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1901 - 258 Seiten
...by either) the new sun Beat thro' the blindless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside,...his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.... | |
 | Wilfred Pirt Mustard - 1904 - 184 Seiten
...simile in 'The Marriage of Geraint/ 74, 11 Contrast the " unlaborlous earth " of the ode ' To Virgil.' " And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Kunning too vehemently to break upon it,"... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 608 Seiten
...by other) the new sun Beat thro' the blindless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside,...his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.... | |
 | Theocritus - 1908 - 288 Seiten
...other) the new sun Beat thro' the blindless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior hi his dreams, Who moving cast the coverlet aside, And...his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1909 - 296 Seiten
...comparison of a strong man's biceps to the passing of running water over a stone that does not break it : And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1913 - 1092 Seiten
...by either) the new sun Beat thro' the blimlless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior roll the waters, flash the lightnings, weigh the...O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1914 - 502 Seiten
...captains flash'd their glittering teeth, The huge bush-bearded barons heaved and blew ... 20 or Ho bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone. Running too vehemently to break upon it ...... | |
 | Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn - 1916 - 204 Seiten
...simile pleases both eye and ear ; Tennyson, for example, uses a simile to give a picture of a man with Arms on which the standing muscles sloped As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. Here the extraordinary correspondence between the swiftness... | |
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