 I have follow'd thro' the world, And I will pay you worship ; tread me down And I will kiss you for it ; ' he was mute : So dark a forethought roll'd about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall In...  Idylls of the King - Page 107by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1897 - 346 pages
...expressive simile from the sea, in "Merlin and Vivien." Merlin was mute; So dark a forethought rolled about his brain As on a dull day in an ocean cave The blind wave feeling round his long sea hall In silence. As a lounger on the shore on calm summer days, Tennyson noticed and recorded his... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 256 pages
...worship ; tread me down And I will kiss you for it " ; he was mute ; So dark a forethought rolled about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...love me ? " and again, " O Merlin, do you love me ? " and once more, " Great Master, do you love me ? " he was mute. And lissome Vivien, holding by his... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1859 - 856 pages
...instance, is that whose vividness and music rival each other, " So dark a forethought rolled about his brain As on a dull day in an ocean cave The blind...wave feeling round his long sea-hall In silence." But in pathos Guinevere transcends all the rest. Here is this erring queen (erring, in Tennyson's fable,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1901 - 880 pages
...other men, while the anxious forecast of it will seem artificial.' So dark a forethought rolled about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave. The...blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall In silence. From the first moment I saw Cardinal Newman, I experienced the inexplicable fascination which all men,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...worship ; tread me down And I will kiss you for it ; ' he was mute : So dark a forethought roll'd about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...love me ? ' and again, ' O Merlin, do you love me ? ' and once more, ' Great Master, do you love me ? ' he was mute. And lissome Vivien holding by his... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...worship ; tread me down And I will kiss you for it ; ' he was mute : So dark a forethought roll'd about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...love me ? ' and again, ' O Merlin, do you love me ? ' and once more, ' Great Master, do you love me ? ' he was mute. And lissome Vivien holding by his... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - Poetry, Modern - 1861 - 568 pages
...other passage of his from the " Idylls of the King." " He was mute : So dark a forethought rolled about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...wave feeling round his long sea-hall In silence." Here is a grand thought expressed in the purest medium of imaginative language. In order to gain a... | |
 | Francis Duncan - Canada - 1861 - 368 pages
...dull green waves crawling round the ship's sides, reminding one of Tennyson's lines in " Vivien :" As on a dull day in an ocean cave, The blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall In eilence. There are few positions more uncomfortable than a passenger's on board a sailing ship in such... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...worship ; tread me down And I will kiss you for it ; ' he was mute : So dark a forethought roll'd about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...love me ? ' and again, ' O Merlin, do you love me ? ' and once more, ' Great Master, do you love me ? ' he was mute. And lissome Vivien holding by his... | |
 | Francis Duncan - Canada - 1864 - 340 pages
...the dull green waves crawling round the ship's sides, reminding one of Tennyson's lines in " Vivien:" As on a dull day in an ocean cave, The blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall In silence. There are few positions more uncomfortable than a passenger's on board a sailing ship in such a calm.... | |
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