 Beat thro" the Windless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams; 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...  Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. ... - Seite 86von Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1170 Seiten
...morning, gazing admiringly upon the mighty " warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of hia heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little... | |
 | Edward Bradley - 1861 - 444 Seiten
...muscular development. You will remember Tennyson's beautiful simile, where he speaks, in " Enid," of " Arms, on which the standing muscle sloped, — As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Bunning too vchemently to break upon it." This Glencreggan burnie shows us the justice of the simile... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1862 - 88 Seiten
...young captains flash'd their glittering teeth, The huge bush-bearded barons heaved and blew. . . or He bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...sloped As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Eunning too vehemently to break upon it ... And this way of speaking is the least plain, the most unHomeric,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1862 - 88 Seiten
...captains flash'd their glittering teeth, The huge bush-bearded barons heaved and blew. . . or ' He bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...sloped As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Eunning too vehemently to break upon it ... And this way of speaking is the least plain, the most unHomeric,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 Seiten
...casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside. And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...thought within herself, Was ever man so grandly made as lie ? Then, like a shadow, past the people's talk And accusation of uxoriousnewi Across her mind, and... | |
 | Margaret T. Downing - 1867 - 394 Seiten
...heated the strong warrior in his dreams, Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knoted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." Another: •*' He dragged his eye-brow bushes down, and made A snowy pent-house for his eyes." Our... | |
 | Rhoda Broughton - 1867 - 396 Seiten
...and of a garden. And among the flowers, and in the garden, I saw Dick; saw him in all his beauty; saw "The knotted column of his throat, The massive square...breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped ; " saw him coming quickly over the springy green turf to meet me, with a great glory of sunshine about... | |
 | Double acrostics - 1868 - 230 Seiten
...To look at her with slight, and say, But now thy beauty flows away, So be alone for evermore.' 4. ' The knotted column of his throat, The massive square...standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a stone, Kunning too vehemently to break upon it.' 119. TWO WELL-KNOWN POETS. 1. A well-known town. 2.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 Seiten
...casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his. throat, The massive...Admiring him, and thought within herself, Was ever man»so grandly made as he ? Then, like a shadow, past the people's talk And accusation of uxoriousness... | |
 | Theocritus - 1869 - 280 Seiten
...possible that Tennyson had this in mind in the following passage in Idylls of the King. (Enid. 76.) ' Arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.' 1. 50. Cp. Hör. Od. 3. 29, 36. 1. 53. ¿к iroScwvcúv, * by the paws,' or rather by those ends of... | |
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