...expressive simile from the sea, in "Merlin and Vivien." Merlin was mute; So dark a forethought rolled about his brain As on a dull day in an ocean cave The blind wave feeling round his long sea hall In silence. As a lounger on the shore on calm summer days, Tennyson noticed and recorded his...

...worship ; tread me down And I will kiss you for it " ; he was mute ; So dark a forethought rolled about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...love me ? " and again, " O Merlin, do you love me ? " and once more, " Great Master, do you love me ? " he was mute. And lissome Vivien, holding by his...

...instance, is that whose vividness and music rival each other, " So dark a forethought rolled about his brain As on a dull day in an ocean cave The blind...wave feeling round his long sea-hall In silence." But in pathos Guinevere transcends all the rest. Here is this erring queen (erring, in Tennyson's fable,...

...other men, while the anxious forecast of it will seem artificial.' So dark a forethought rolled about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave. The...blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall In silence. From the first moment I saw Cardinal Newman, I experienced the inexplicable fascination which all men,...

...worship ; tread me down And I will kiss you for it ; ' he was mute : So dark a forethought roll'd about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...love me ? ' and again, ' O Merlin, do you love me ? ' and once more, ' Great Master, do you love me ? ' he was mute. And lissome Vivien holding by his...

...worship ; tread me down And I will kiss you for it ; ' he was mute : So dark a forethought roll'd about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...love me ? ' and again, ' O Merlin, do you love me ? ' and once more, ' Great Master, do you love me ? ' he was mute. And lissome Vivien holding by his...

...other passage of his from the " Idylls of the King." " He was mute : So dark a forethought rolled about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...wave feeling round his long sea-hall In silence." Here is a grand thought expressed in the purest medium of imaginative language. In order to gain a...

...dull green waves crawling round the ship's sides, reminding one of Tennyson's lines in " Vivien :" As on a dull day in an ocean cave, The blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall In eilence. There are few positions more uncomfortable than a passenger's on board a sailing ship in such...

...worship ; tread me down And I will kiss you for it ; ' he was mute : So dark a forethought roll'd about his brain, As on a dull day in an Ocean cave The blind...love me ? ' and again, ' O Merlin, do you love me ? ' and once more, ' Great Master, do you love me ? ' he was mute. And lissome Vivien holding by his...

...the dull green waves crawling round the ship's sides, reminding one of Tennyson's lines in " Vivien:" As on a dull day in an ocean cave, The blind wave feeling round his long sea-hall In silence. There are few positions more uncomfortable than a passenger's on board a sailing ship in such a calm....