 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...Should blind my purpose, for I never saw, Nor shall see, here or elsewhere, till I die, Not though I live three lives of mortal men, So great a miracle...brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the meer." And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard : " My end draws nigh ; 'tis time that I were gone.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...Should blind my purpose, for I never saw, Nor shall see, here or elsewhere, till I die, Not though I live three lives of mortal men, So great a miracle...brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the meer." And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard : " My end draws nigh ; 'tis time that I were gone.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...Should blind my purpose, for I never saw, Nor shall see, here or elsewhere, till I die, Not though I live three lives of mortal men, So great a miracle...brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the meer. " And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard : " My end draws nigh; 'tis time that I were gone.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pages
...Should blind my purpose, for I never saw, Nor shall see, here or elsewhere, till I die, Not though I live three lives of mortal men, So great a miracle...brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the meer." And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard : " My end draws nigh ; 'tis time that I were gone.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 276 pages
...great a miracle as yonder hilt. Then with both hands I flung him, wheeling him ; But when I looked again, behold an arm, Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, That caught him by the hilt, and brandished him Three times, and drew him under in the meer." " My end draws nigh ; 't is time that... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 pages
...done. Speak out : what is it thou hast heard, or seen ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " Sir King, I closed mine eyelids, lest the gems Should...him Three times, and drew him under in the mere." And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard : " My end draws nigh ; 'tis time that I were gone. Make... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
...great a miracle as yonder hilt. Then with both hands I flung him, wheeling him ; But when I looked again, behold an arm, Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, That caught him by the hilt, and brandished him • Three times, and drew him under in the meer." " My end draws nigh ; 't is time that... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 284 pages
...great a miracle as yonder hilt. Then with both hands I flung him, wheeling him ; But when I looked again, behold an arm, Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, That caught him by the hilt, and brandished him Three times, and drew him under in the meer." " My end draws nigh ; 't is time that... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1898 - 248 pages
...Excalibur: But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him, Three times and drew him under in the mere. Thus passes Arthur. Here the artist loses perhaps somewhat of the allegorical, but he gains of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...done. Speak out : what is it thou hast heard, or seen ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " Sir King, I closed mine eyelids, lest the gems Should...mystic, wonderful, That caught him by the hilt, and brandish' d him Three times, and drew him under in the mere." And answer made King Arthur, breathing... | |
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And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard : " My end draws nigh ; 'tis time that I were gone. Make broad thy shoulders to receive my weight, And bear me to the margin ; yet I fear My wound hath taken cold, and I shall die. 
