 | 1895 - 588 pages
...follow so closely at times the very words of Malory. The poet makes Sir Bedivere say to the king — ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' His language in the prose runs — ' Syr, I sawe no thynge but the waters wappe and the waves wanne... | |
 | 1894 - 576 pages
...heavily, What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere, I beard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' What a wonderful sense of loneliness and desolation and deep melancholy these words convey to us !... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : " Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ?' And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : " Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath: " Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : " Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1878 - 676 pages
...Idyll.— Then spake King Arthur..." What is it thou hast seen 1 " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere, " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing on the reeds. " Prose. — " Ah, traitor, untrue," said King Arthur, "now hast thou betrayed me two... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 276 pages
...heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : " Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : " Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 pages
...heavily: " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath : " Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted... | |
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Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily: "What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the water lapping on the crag , And the long ripple washing in the reeds. 
