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
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1887 - 508 Seiten
...casement ot the room, And heated the strong warrior in hj» 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 littla... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1888 - 388 Seiten
...also be quoted:— Chaucer's Miller is a picture of coarse physical energy, supported by poetic arts. And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...sloped As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Hunning too vehemently to break upon it. The physical power in this instance is portrayed by figure... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1891 - 244 Seiten
...casements 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...breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped. And Enid woke and sat beside the couch, Admiring him, and thought within herself, Was ever man so grandly... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1891 - 240 Seiten
...Eomance, proceeding at once to Geraint's dominions. Many poets have been laid under contribution in Enid. Arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Banning too vehemently to break upon it : This is taken with an ingenious and happy turn from Theocritus,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 180 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...the couch, Admiring him, and thought within herself, 80 Was ever man so grandly made as he ? Then, like a shadow, past the people's talk And accusation... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 182 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...sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Eunning too vehemently to break upon it. And Enid woke and sat beside the couch, Admiring him, and... | |
| Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 Seiten
...young captains flashed their glittering teeth, The huge bush-bearded barons heaved and blew ;" " He bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." And this way of speaking is the least plain, the most un-Homeric, which can possibly be conceived. Homer... | |
| Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 Seiten
...young captains flashed their glittering teeth, The huge bush-bearded barons heaved and blew ;" " He bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." And this way of speaking is the least plain, the most un-Homeric, which can possibly be conceived. Homer... | |
| Richard Jones - 1894 - 176 Seiten
...either. K. And bared the column of his knotted throat, The massive heroic of his square breast, '57. And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, (88, 3.) '57. At this he snatch' d his great limbs from the bed, '59. At this he hurPd his huge limbs... | |
| John Burroughs - 1895 - 268 Seiten
...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... | |
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