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
| Gaelic Society of Glasgow - 1908 - 372 pages
...Norman Macleod's account of the emigrant ship need no description of the harrowing details. " And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less." We cannot contemplate the manner in which this change was effected without being struck... | |
| Gaelic Society of Glasgow - 1908 - 374 pages
...Norman Macleod's account of the emigrant ship need no .description of the harrowing details. " And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less." We cannot contemplate the manner in which this change was effected without being struck... | |
| Arthur Hadrian Allcroft - 1908 - 748 pages
..."And still from time to time the. heathen host Swarmed overseas, and harried what was left, And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more And man ivas less and less." THE conquest of Britain by the Teutonic tribes was a protracted agony... | |
| Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society - 1909 - 430 pages
...are any who believe that under the much-abused forest law Inglewood was merely a place where '1 here grew great tracts of wilderness Wherein the beast was ever more and more And man was less and less a very short study of these manuscripts would convince them of their error.... | |
| Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 332 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. . . . And thus the land of Cameliard was waste, Thick with wet woods, and many a beast... | |
| Katherine Jewell Everts - 1911 - 356 pages
...Coming of Arthur," the ideal ruler, shows us the setting up of this kingdom. Before this was disorder, great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less. Arthur slays the beast and fells the forest, and the old order changes to give place... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1913 - 244 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 - 1913 - 1092 pages
...the land; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was And so less and less, till Arthur came. For first Aurelius lived and fought and died, And after him King Uther... | |
| Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...land; And still from tune to tune 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. . . . And thus the land of Cameliard was waste, Thick with wet woods, and many a beast... | |
| Hannah Theresa McManus, John Henry Haaren - 1917 - 336 pages
...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, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less, till Arthur came. ALFHED, LOED TENNYSON. 241 One evening there came to Pherae2 a lordly... | |
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