 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....  Russell's Magazine - Page 548edited by - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1860 - 1174 pages
...boldness, she sits beside his conch, one early morning, gazing admiringly upon the mighty "warrior in his dreams; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside,...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."... | |
 | Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...boldness, she sits beside his couch, one early morning, gazing admiringly upon the mighty " warrior in hia dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And...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."... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 256 pages
...by other) the new sun Beat through the Windless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside,...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.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Arthurian romances - 1859 - 304 pages
...by other) the new sun Beat thro' the blindless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside,...column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic hreast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 620 pages
...that of Peter Grimes, because one morning as he was asleep, and Enid sat beside the coach, admiring " The knotted column of his throat, The massive square...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,"... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 618 pages
...that of Peter Grimes, because one morning as he was asleep, and Enid sat beside the coach, admiring " The knotted column of his throat, The massive square...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,"... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 588 pages
...real nobility in the \veak presence of Paul than in the stalwart frame of the 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 brook o'er a little stone, Running too... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1860 - 1176 pages
...boldness, she sits beside his couch, one early morning, gazing admiringly upon the mighty " warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside,...knotted column of his throat, The massive square of hia heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...each by other) the new sun Beat thro' the Windless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside,...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.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...each by other) the new sun Beat thro' the Windless casement of the room, And heated the strong warrior in his dreams ; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside,...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.... | |
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