The Loly Grail: With introd. and notes by G[eorge] C[ampbell] MacaulayMacmillan, 1893 - 86 pages |
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Page xvii
... Siege perilous . There is no need here to press the symbolism very closely and to say , as has been said , that the chair fashioned and curiously carved by Merlin represents Knowledge and is perilous for good and ill because the ...
... Siege perilous . There is no need here to press the symbolism very closely and to say , as has been said , that the chair fashioned and curiously carved by Merlin represents Knowledge and is perilous for good and ill because the ...
Page xxxiv
... Siege Perilous is written , Four hun- dred and fifty years after the passion of the Lord Jesus Christ ought this siege to be filled , ' that is to say , this Whitsunday . Lancelot covers these words . Before they sit down to table it is ...
... Siege Perilous is written , Four hun- dred and fifty years after the passion of the Lord Jesus Christ ought this siege to be filled , ' that is to say , this Whitsunday . Lancelot covers these words . Before they sit down to table it is ...
Page xxxv
... Siege Perilous , and that he , Galahad and Bors shall achieve the Quest . To find Galahad he must go to Castle Corbenic , where dwells the maimed King . He comes to a monastery where he sees an old man crowned , with his body full of ...
... Siege Perilous , and that he , Galahad and Bors shall achieve the Quest . To find Galahad he must go to Castle Corbenic , where dwells the maimed King . He comes to a monastery where he sees an old man crowned , with his body full of ...
Page 6
... Siege perilous , " Perilous for good and ill ; " for there , ” he said , " No man could sit but he should lose himself : " And once by misadvertence Merlin sat In his own chair , and so was lost ; but he , Galahad , when he heard of ...
... Siege perilous , " Perilous for good and ill ; " for there , ” he said , " No man could sit but he should lose himself : " And once by misadvertence Merlin sat In his own chair , and so was lost ; but he , Galahad , when he heard of ...
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... Siege Perilous ' which is mentioned later in this idyll . The Order was for defence of the realm against Rome and the heathen ; and the Table Round itself was made by Merlin as an emblem of the round world . In Tennyson's Idylls of ...
... Siege Perilous ' which is mentioned later in this idyll . The Order was for defence of the realm against Rome and the heathen ; and the Table Round itself was made by Merlin as an emblem of the round world . In Tennyson's Idylls of ...
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