 Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of land is given to plow. Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 5301870Full view - About this book
 | 1881 - 996 pages
...poem closes. " And some among you held that if the king Had seen the sight, he would have sworn the vow; Not easily, seeing that the king must guard That...he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of hind is given to plough, Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done ; but,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 752 pages
...him otherwhere. And some among you hold that if thu king Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow : Not easily, seeing that the king must guard...field Before his work be done ; but, being done, Let visiona of the night or of the day Come, as they will ; and many a time they come. Until this earth... | |
 | 1870 - 494 pages
...otherwhere. ' " And some among you held, that if the King Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow : Not easily, seeing that the King must guard...not wander from the allotted field, Before his work bo done ; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will ; and many a time... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...him otherwhere. "'And some among you held that if the king Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow: Not easily, seeing that the king must guard That...Who may not wander from the allotted field Before bis work be done ; bat, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will ; and... | |
 | 1870 - 844 pages
...seen the sight he would have sworn the vow; Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which be rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of land...Who may not wander from the allotted field, Before bis work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day 3ome, as they will ; and... | |
 | 1870 - 748 pages
...if thu king ILi I seen the sight he would have sworn the TOW : Not easily, seeing that the king most guard That which he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a cpace of land is given to plough. Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done... | |
 | 1871 - 644 pages
...done. They had told him that if he ' had seen the sight, he would have vowed the vow ;' but he says, ' Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which...from the allotted field Before his work be done.' And then he nobly, grandly, adds, ' but being done, Let visions of the night, or of the day, Come as... | |
 | John Earle - 1871 - 644 pages
...Park, ch. iv. * And some among you held, that if the King Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow ; Not easily, seeing that the King must guard...given to plough, Who may not wander from the allotted Held, Before his work be done.' Alfred Tennyson, The Holy Grail. In the single case of the verb to... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 pages
...weighed down by duty. He cannot quest the Grail ; the King " must guard that which he rules ; " he is "but as the hind, To whom a space of land is given to plough." Supposing then that we have settled the point who are to be the representatives of the great fields... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1884 - 1122 pages
...Arthur says : " And some among you held, that if the king Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow : Not easily, seeing that the king must guard...he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of laud is given to plough, Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work is done." The contemplative... | |
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