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" Merlin, overtalk'd and overworn, Had yielded, told her all the charm, and slept. Then, in one moment, she put forth the charm Of woven paces and of waving hands, And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, And lost to life and use and name and fame. Then crying... "
The works of Alfred Tennyson - Page 231
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 49

1860 - 620 pages
...Then, in one moment, she put forth the charm Of woven paces and of waving hands, And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, And lost to life and use and name and fame. Then crying, ' I have made his glory mine,' And shrieking out, ' O fool !' the harlot leapt Adown the...
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The North British Review, Volume 31

1859 - 590 pages
...evermore, Nor could he see but him who wrought the charm, Coming and going, and he lay as dead, Aud lost to life, and use, and name, and fame. And Vivien...great According to his greatness whom she quench'd. Vivien pleads in vain to be told the charm. Merlin resists all her entreaties and subtle feminine persuasions....
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The Universal review, Volume 2

1859 - 914 pages
...with waving arms, The man so wrought on ever seem'd to lie Closed in the four walls of a hollow tower, and he lay as dead And lost to life and use and name and fame." It is needless to say that Vivien proves her own power of enchantment to be superior to Merlin's, and...
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Idyls of the king. Author's ed

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 256 pages
...Then, in one moment, she put forth the charm Of woven paces and of waving hands, And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, And lost to life and use and name and fame. Then crying, " I have made his glory mine," And shrieking out, " O fool ! " the harlot leapt Adown...
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Idylls of the King

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 304 pages
...Then, in one moment, she put forth the charm Of woven paces and of waving hands, And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, And lost to life and use and name and fame. Then crying ' I have made his glory mine,' And shrieking out ' O fool ! ' the harlot leapt Adown the...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 48

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...Then, in one moment, she put forth the charm Of woven paces and of waving hands, And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, And lost to life and use, and name and fame." In the third idyll we find ourselves again somewhat too far removed from the I region of human interests...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 48

1859 - 620 pages
...Then, in one moment, she put forth the charm Of woven paces and of waving bands, And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, And lost to life and use, and name and fame." In the third idyll we find ourselves again somewhat too far removed from the region of human interests...
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Fragments of Criticism

John Nichol - 1860 - 258 pages
...win his love as to elicit the secret of a spell which would place him for ever in her power : — " As fancying that her glory would be great According to his greatness whom she quench'd." The art with which she beguiles Merlin is exquisite. The description of her beauty and wanton wiles...
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Bentley's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

1860 - 632 pages
...brought her with the court; and a good deal for the mere pleasure of making a fool of a wise man : ' As fancying that her glory would be great According to his greatness whom she quench'd.' In this Idyll or novelette graceful poetry is made the vehicle for much keen observation and experience....
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1860 - 890 pages
...Then, in one moment, she put forth the charm, Of woven paces and of waving hands, And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, And lost to life, and use and name and fame. Then crying, ' I have made his glory mine,> And shrieking out, ' O fool 1' the harlot leapt Adown the...
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