The Loly Grail: With introd. and notes by G[eorge] C[ampbell] MacaulayMacmillan, 1893 - 86 pages |
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... stone is floating on the river with a sword sticking therein . The King and all the knights go to see it , and find written on the sword that none may draw it out save the best knight in the world . Lancelot refuses to attempt the ...
... stone is floating on the river with a sword sticking therein . The King and all the knights go to see it , and find written on the sword that none may draw it out save the best knight in the world . Lancelot refuses to attempt the ...
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... stone , A holy maid ; tho ' never maiden glow'd , But that was in her earlier maidenhood , With such a fervent flame of human love , Which being rudely blunted , glanced and shot Only to holy things ; to prayer and praise She gave ...
... stone , A holy maid ; tho ' never maiden glow'd , But that was in her earlier maidenhood , With such a fervent flame of human love , Which being rudely blunted , glanced and shot Only to holy things ; to prayer and praise She gave ...
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... stones ; and lying bounden there In darkness thro ' innumerable hours He heard the hollow - ringing heavens sweep Over him till by miracle - what else ? — Heavy as it was , a great stone slipt and fell Such as no wind could move : and ...
... stones ; and lying bounden there In darkness thro ' innumerable hours He heard the hollow - ringing heavens sweep Over him till by miracle - what else ? — Heavy as it was , a great stone slipt and fell Such as no wind could move : and ...
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... stones Raw , that they fell from , brought us to the hall . ' And there sat Arthur on the daïs - throne , And those that had gone out upon the Quest , Wasted and worn , and but a tithe of them , And those that had not , stood before the ...
... stones Raw , that they fell from , brought us to the hall . ' And there sat Arthur on the daïs - throne , And those that had gone out upon the Quest , Wasted and worn , and but a tithe of them , And those that had not , stood before the ...
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... stones of the pavement by her continual kneeling in prayer . 73. But that was etc. For this form of parenthesis , see note on 1. 21. It is of more frequent occurrence in Tennyson than in any other poet , and often has considerable ...
... stones of the pavement by her continual kneeling in prayer . 73. But that was etc. For this form of parenthesis , see note on 1. 21. It is of more frequent occurrence in Tennyson than in any other poet , and often has considerable ...
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