 And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone. Running too vehemently to break upon it.  Idylls of the King - Pagina 8door Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 261 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1860 - 1172 pagina’s
...coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his throat. The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped. As slopes a wild brook o'er a little atone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." Grazing thns admiringly, she sorrowfully reproves... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pagina’s
...weakness. Mr. Tennyson's force of simile and expression is strikingly shown in such passages as these : • "And arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." • • But while the sun yet beat a dewy blade, The sound of many a heavily galloping hoof Smote on... | |
 | 1859 - 620 pagina’s
...beside the coach, admiring " The knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes...little stone Running too vehemently to break upon it," she began to upbraid herself for not having had the courage to reprove him for his idle and effeminate... | |
 | 1859 - 586 pagina’s
...beside the couch, admiring ' The knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes...little stone Running too vehemently to break upon it,' she began to upbraid herself for not having had the courage to reprove him for his idle and effeminate... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1859 - 618 pagina’s
...beside the coach, admiring " The knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped As slopes...little stone Running too vehemently to break upon it," she began to upbraid herself for not having had the courage to reprove him for his idle and effeminate... | |
 | 1859 - 588 pagina’s
...Arthurian knight,— " The knotted column of his throat. The massive square of his heroic breast, And arras on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild...stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it,"— even when glorified by Mr Tennyson. Mr Henry Kingsley's worship of the flesh is no feigned idolatry... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1170 pagina’s
...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...little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." Gazing thus admiringly, she sorrowfully reproves herself for lacking in the courage to speak out and... | |
 | Edward Bradley - 1861 - 444 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...and blew. . . or He bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle 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 pagina’s
...blew. . . or ' He bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle 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,... | |
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