The Meaning of the Idylls of the King: An Essay in InterpretationAmerican Book Company, 1904 - 115 pages |
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allegory AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY Arthur's court Arthurian legend babe Balin and Balan battle beauty become the crime Bedivere Bellicent Bleys blind built to music Camelot castle Christ comes CONDÉ BENOIST PALLEN crime of malice crime of sense Dagonet death deep he goes Dictionary Dubric Earl Doorm earth Elaine epic Ettarre Excalibur eyes faith flesh Galahad Gareth Gawain Geraint and Enid gloom glory Guinevere Guinevere's hall hath heaven hermit's cave heroic Holy Grail Holy Vessel human ideal Idylls King Arthur King's kingship knights knows Lady Lyonors Last Tournament lawless Leodogran light Limours Lynette Malory's meaning Merlin Morning Star noble passes passions pavilion Pelleas poem poet powers of Sense pride pure purity quest realm reign Round Table says sensual shadow shame Sir Balin Sir Lancelot soul spiritual city splendor sword symbol Tennyson thee thou thro tion Tristram truth victory virtue vision Vivien vows wisdom word-painting
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Page 90 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 70 - Before his work be done, but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air...
Page 83 - And all his greaves and cuisses dash'd with drops Of onset ; and the light and lustrous curls — That made his forehead like a rising sun High from the...
Page 85 - And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "Sir King, I closed mine eyelids, lest the gems Should blind my purpose, for I never saw, Nor shall see, here or elsewhere, till I die, Not tho' I live three lives of mortal men, So great a miracle as yonder hilt.
Page 27 - Toward the sunrise, each with harp in hand, And built it to the music of their harps. And, as thou sayest, it is enchanted, son, For there is nothing in it as it seems Saving the King ; tho' some there be that hold The King a shadow, and the city real.
Page 81 - Let no man dream but that I love thee still. Perchance, and so thou purify thy soul, And so thou lean on our fair father Christ, Hereafter in that world where all are pure We two may meet before high God, and thou Wilt spring to me, and claim me thine, and know I am thine husband — not a smaller soul, Nor Lancelot, nor another. Leave me that, I charge thee, my last hope. Now must I hence. Thro...
Page 4 - Nay, nay,' said Hall, ' Why take the style of those heroic times ? For nature brings not back the Mastodon, Nor we those times ; and why should any man Remodel models? these twelve books of mine Were faint Homeric echoes, nothing-worth, Mere chaff and draff, much better burnt.
Page 13 - By which they rest, and ocean sounds, And, star and system rolling past, A soul shall draw from out the vast And strike his being into bounds, And, moved thro...
Page 96 - I found Him in the shining of the stars, I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not.
Page 109 - A Latin Dictionary, founded on Andrews' Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary. Revised, enlarged, and in great part re-written, by Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D., and Charles Short, LL.D.