...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, Behind them, and so gallop'd up the knoll. A purple scarf, at either end whereof There swung an apple...

...Gareth Lynette, 773: a mere, round as the red eye of an Eagle-owl; — 342 a 32, Marriage Geraint, 76: arms on which the standing muscle sloped, as slopes...little stone, running too vehemently to break upon it ; (eine auffallend analoge Stelle aus T heokrit, Id. ХХП, 48 ff., bei Churton Collins). — $ 216....

...themselves mark Tennyson as a poet of close observation and with a gift for simple yet adequate phrasing: * "As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." Marriage of Geraint. "a brook With one sharp rapid, where the crisping white Play'd ever back upon...

...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? *&*^-r Then, like a shadow, past the people's talk \ And accusation of uxoriousness i vj \ Across her...

...casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior ht his dreams, Who moving cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. * Readers will remember Virgil's somno mollior herba, > suggested by fnaXaKwrepa virvta (applied by...

...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...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. But in every page of that poet which is not mere familiar home life, I feel in the splendour of his...

...huge bush-bearded barons heaved and blew ; He bared the knotted column of his throat, The rjcassive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the...stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. And this way of speaking is the least plain, the most «»Homeric, which can possibly be conceived. Homer...

.../iu«r tmptoiai fipaxloriv, have been compared with Tennyson's simile, ' Marriage of Geraint', 76, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. Tennyson, however, resented this comparison, and maintained that his simile is different (Eversley...

...Upon the level in little puffs of wind, Though anchor'd to the bottom, such is he;" or this: — "Anns on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild...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...

...often loses himself in his figure and prefers the simile to the metaphor. Take the picture of Geraint: "Arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Eunning too vehemently to break upon it." Here we shift our attention entirely from the thing described...