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. De Natura Deorum Libri Tres - الصفحة 176بواسطة Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1880عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 1172
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...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 a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." • • But while the sun yet beat a dewy blade, The sound... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...coverlet aside, And bared the knotted 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 too vehemently to break upon it. And Enid woke and sat beside the couch, Admiring him, and... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...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. And Enid woke and sat beside the couch, Admiring him, and... | |
| 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...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 a wild brook o'er a little stone Running too vehemently to break upon it," she began to upbraid herself for not having had the courage... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...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 a wild brook o'er a little stone Running too vehemently to break upon it," she began to upbraid herself for not having had the courage... | |
| 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...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 vehemently to break upon it,"— even when glorified by Mr Tennyson. Mr Henry Kingsley's... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 1176
...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 a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it." Gazing thus admiringly, she sorrowfully reproves herself... | |
| Edward Bradley - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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. And Enid woke and sat beside the couch, Admiring him, and... | |
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