For many a petty king ere Arthur came Ruled in this isle, and ever waging war Each upon other, wasted all the land ; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was left. And so there grew great tracts of wilderness,... Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 3251912Full view - About this book
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 112 pages
...: And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was left. And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less, till Arthur came. For first Aurelius lived and fought and died, And after him King Uther... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 112 pages
...: And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was left. And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less, till Arthur came. For first Aurelius lived and fought and died, And after him King Uther... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 122 pages
...And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was left. 10 And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more,| But man was less and less, till Arthur came.l For first Aurelius lived and fought and died, And after him King... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1896 - 136 pages
...And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried * what was left. And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less, till Arthur came. For first Aurelius lived and fought and died, And after him King Uther... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 452 pages
...; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd over-seas, and harried what was left. And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less, till Arthur came. For first Aurelius lived and fought and died, And after him King Uther... | |
| 1898 - 724 pages
...the savage Norsmen, attack the country from without, robbers and outlaws harrass it within. "And so there grew great tracts of wilderness Wherein the beast was ever more and more And man was less and less." After the death of Uther, the son of Aurelius, the country is without a... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 382 pages
...; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was left. And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less, till Arthur came. For first Aurelius lived and fought and died, And after him King Uther... | |
| Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1900 - 968 pages
...the laborious progress of mankind. Isaiah stands where Hercules stood, and Theseus, and Arthur when " There grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less till Arthur came. And he drave The heathen, and he slew the beast, and felled The forest,... | |
| Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society - 1902 - 370 pages
...internecine strife of men themselves, who — Ever waging war Each upon other wasted all the land, And so there grew great tracts of wilderness Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less. Then again would come one like the half-mythical Arthur, who Slew the beast, and fell.d... | |
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