 ELAINE ELAINE the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat, High in her chamber up a tower to the east Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot; Which first she placed where morning's earliest ray...  Elaine - Page 15by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 84 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...the desired effect. Thus, in the commencement of a charming idyll, third of the present series — " Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine the lily maid of Astolat," each term is separately trite and simple ; and taken together they suggest only a pleasing outline... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1893 - 482 pages
...woman, and Tennyson could no more describe a bad woman than Fra Angelico could have painted one. Only "Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine the lily maid of Astolat," wins us with her beauty, and melts us with her hapless love. It is to her sorrows, and to the repentance... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 588 pages
...number of the extracts with which we present them. We now come to the third Idyll, called " Elaine." Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat, guards in her chamber the shield of Sir Lancelot, for which she has embroidered a silken cover answering... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...the desired effect. Thus, in the commencement of a charming idyll, third of the present series — " Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine the lily maid of Astolat," each term is separately trite and simple ; and taken together they suggest only a pleasing outline... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...closed Behind her, and the forest echo'd ' fool.' ELAINE. ELAINE the fair, Elaine the loveable, Llaine the lily maid of Astolat, High in her chamber up a...; Which first she placed where morning's earliest rav Might strike it, and awake her with the gleam • Inen fearing rust or soilure fashion'd for it... | |
 | Chayleigh - 1862 - 350 pages
...moss. And so like, and yet how unlike! " the lily maid of Astolat," who, " leaving her household," " High in her chamber up a tower to the east, Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot;" " she lived in fantasy." And living so, does it seem strange that she was not uncontent; even more,... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1865 - 338 pages
..." Do you expect me to catalogue her oeauties ? She was just the kind of party one imagines — " ' Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine the lily maid of Astolat.' " " By Jove !" said Hugh, " it's a case of love at first sight ; and the fellow has taken to quote... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Arthurian romances - 1866 - 204 pages
...leapt Adown the forest, and the thicket closed Behind her, and the forest echo'd " fool." ELAINE. LAINE the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid...of Astolat, High in her chamber up a tower to the r east Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot; Which first she placed where morning's earliest ray Might... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...closed Behind her, and the forest echo'd, " Fool." ELAINE. ELAINE the lair, Elaine the lovable, Klainc, the lily maid of Astolat, High in her chamber up a tower to the east Guarded the saered shield of Lancelot; Whieh first she placed where morning's earliest ray Might strike it, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pages
...Behiwd her, and the forest echo'd "fool." ELAINE. ELAINE the i'air, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lil\ maid of Astolat, High in her chamber up a tower to...shield of Lancelot ; Which first she placed where morning'! earliest ray Might strike it, and awake her with th< gleam ; Then fearing rust or soilure,... | |
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