| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 pages
...to a place hard by, ' A chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the...Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.'1 Arthur, feeling himself about to die, bids him take his sword Excalibur 'and fling him far... | |
| Wellington College - 1871 - 250 pages
...style, and purifying his feelings. His Idylls exhale a familiar aroma of Homeric style and roU. " OB one side lay the ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full ; " Homeric repetition being their peculiar characteristic. Although Homer, if suddenly resuscitated,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...knights, And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lav a crreat water, and the moon was full. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " The sequel of... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...chapel nigh the fleld, A hroken chancel with a hroken cross, That stood on a dark strait of harren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was fnll. Then spake King Arthnr to Sir Bedivere : "The seqnel of to-day nnsolders all The goodliest fellowship... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...meaning a lake or a river. See Morte D' Arthur. Tennyson has revived the phrase in his Morte Ds Arthur: " On one side lay the ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full. " Milton here may be thinking of the Thames. 80. Comp. Paradise Lost, \. 62-4. 83. The belman = the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 340 pages
...uplifted him, And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land : On one side lay the...and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : ' The sequel of to-day unsolders all The goodliest fellowship... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...knights, And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the...and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full. 2. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " The sequel of to-day unsolders all The goodliest fellowship... | |
| 1910 - 728 pages
...the high- water mark of English style in poetry and 'prose, cited those lines as topmost in poetry : On one side lay the ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full. Mrs. Meynell calls this " a noble passage " in which there is " no taint of manner, no pretty posture... | |
| 1875 - 448 pages
...knights, And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the...on one Lay a great water,* and the moon was full. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : "The sequel of to-day unsolders all The goodliest fellowship... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...knights, And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the...and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " The sequel of to-day unsolders all The goodliest fellowship... | |
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