...to the metaphor. Take the picture of Geraint: "Arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes n wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." Here we shift our attention entirely from the thing described to the description. But no better illustration...

...the great poet we can readily understand why he could pen such an exact simile in the lines: ". . . arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." Individual Differences in Imagination. — There are manifestly very great individual differences in...

...hand Caught at the hilt. (Ib. 209-10) On the other hand, where the preceding line is stopt, as in : As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it (Ib. 77-8) or where it ends in an unstressed or feminine ending, as in : and in April suddenly Breaks...

...captains flash'd their glittering teeth, The huge bush-bearded barons heaved and blew ... 20 or Ho 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 unHomeric, which can possibly be conceived. Homer...

...Tennyson, for example, uses a simile to give a picture of a man with Arms on which the standing muscles sloped As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. Here the extraordinary correspondence between the swiftness and sound of the brook and the movement...

...true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. —Page 112. the knotted column of his throat, The massive square...o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break it. Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg The murmur of the world! —Page 156. For man is man and...

...prose. It is instructive to apply Mr. Ernie's principles to an iambic verse. Thus in Tennyson's — Arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it, Quantity should serve to turn the last line into the makings of a perfect Ernleian hexameter — Running/too...

...its back on the salt blast!" He has walked beside a brook, watching how, in some places, "It slopes o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it," and marking in others how "The crisping white Plays ever back upon the sloping wave ;" and knows how one...

...As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. And Enid awoke and sat beside the couch, Admiring him, and thought within herself, Was ever man so grandly made as he?186 "Now all this to me is beastly, a perfectly animal picture. It may be pretty, but it is very...

...casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, our ghastliest doubt ; I thoughf within herself, Was ever man so grandly made as he ? Then, like a shadow, passed the people's...