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 sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it. Studies in German Literature - Page 71by Bayard Taylor - 1879 - 418 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1860 - 1174 pages
..."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...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... | |
| Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...warrior in hia dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his throat. The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms...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... | |
| Universalism - 1860 - 444 pages
...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... | |
| American literature - 1859 - 620 pages
...morning as he was asleep, and Enid sat beside the coach, admiring " The knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms...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 - American periodicals - 1859 - 618 pages
...morning as he was asleep, and Enid sat beside the coach, admiring " The knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms...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... | |
| English literature - 1859 - 586 pages
...morning as he was asleep, and Enid sat beside the couch, admiring ' The knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms...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... | |
| English literature - 1859 - 588 pages
...beside her husband, who had thrown aside the coverlet, And bared the knotted column of his throat, And massive square of his heroic breast, And arms, on which the standing muscle sloped, AB slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it, she, soliloquising,... | |
| Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1859 - 610 pages
...varrior in AM dreams : Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of /its throat. The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscles sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Runningloo vehemently to break upon it.... | |
| Edward Bradley - 1861 - 444 pages
...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... | |
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