...through the air), and many others. Our poets use words of this class with admirable effect — • I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the erag. Tennyson (Morte d' Arthur). The lime— a summer home of murnnwom wings. I/I. (Gardener's Daughter)....

...slow to the wounded King. Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily : ' What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard?' And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds. ' To whom replied King Arthur,...

..." Hast thou performed my mission which I gave t What is it thou hast seen t or what hast heard f " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard...replied King Arthur, faint and pale : " Thou hast betrayed thy nature and thy name, Not rendering true answer, as beseemed Thy fealty, nor like a noble...

...234 THE PASSING OF ARTHUR. Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur,...

...phenomena are noted that serve as an aid to our complete realisation of the scene. Sir Bedivere hears The ripple washing in the reeds, and The wild water lapping on the crags ; the two phrases marking exactly the difference of sound produced by water swelling up against...

...Arthur to Sir Bedivere : ' Hast thou performed my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen, or what hast heard ? ' And answer made the bold Sir...the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.' " INFLECTION APPLIED TO ANTITHETICAL SENTENCES. Antithesis, the opposition of two ideas, or two sides...

...contented 12 linrdened. with — acquittal [in — depravity complete . «J announced iu — language 18. I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crags. — Tennyson. 13. «««<«r rtj j Wtej Capping ^in — reeds ; [on — craa*. «7iel //ie J...

...the shores of that mystic mere. Never a sound was there to break the stillness of evening, save only The ripple washing in the reeds And the wild water lapping on the crags. Our path lay among rocks and russet bracken, along a pathway fringed with the weirdest of gnarled...

..."Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave? What is it tbou hast seen ? or what hast heard ?" 216 217 And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the ripple washing In the reeds, Aud the wild water lapping on the crag." To whom replied King Arthur, faint and pale : "Thou hast betray'd...

...slow to the wounded King. Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily : ' What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard?' And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds. ' To whom replied King Arthur,...