...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...sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Kunning too vehemently to break upon it. And Enid woke and sat beside the couch, Admiring him, and...

...whirling on, The winter-flowing stream hath worn right smooth This side and that." — (THEOCRITUS.) " And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." —(TENNYSON.) In addition to many instances of direct borrowing of ideas or illustrations, many minor...

...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...sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Kunning too vehemently to break upon it. And Enid woke and sat beside the couch, Admiring him, and...

...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...standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a litt^ stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. And Enid woke and sat beside the couch, Admiring...

...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...within herself, Was ever man so grandly made as he 1 Then, like a shadow, past the people's talk And accusation of uxoriousness Across her mind, and bowing...

...room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams ; Who. moving, cast the coverlet aside, And hared the knotted column of his throat. The massive square...his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing musele sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it....

...perfect as Tennyson's comparison in the Idylls, where he speaks of arms, on which the standing muscles sloped As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. And again, the comparison of the ancient mariner's brown skin to the colour of ribbed sand is admirable,...

...opposed to a flat surface ; so Quint, vin Pref. 19 speaks of corpora lacertis expressa (cf. Tennyson ' arms on which the standing muscle sloped, as slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone ') ; em. of any protuberance which breaks an even line, as the circle is said to have niliil eminent...

...slides Upon the level in little puffs of wind, Though anchor'd to the bottom, such is he;" or this : — "Arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes...Running too vehemently to break upon it," — and many other gems that abound in his poems. He does not cut and cover in a single line, so far as I have...

...massive square of his heroic breast. And arms on which the standing muscle sIop'J. And Enid woke and sato beside the couch Admiring him, and thought within herself Was ever man so grandly made as he ? . . . And bowing over him, Low to her own heart piteously she said, " Am I the cause, I the poor...