 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
 | Thomas Shaw Baron Craigmyle - 1921 - 368 pages
...solitude — for sport. Then I quoted, amid dead silence, Tennyson's lines on Pagan England : — " And so there grew great tracts of wilderness Wherein the beast was ever more and more, And man was less and less." There was an uproar in Court, in which I think I saw the jury joining with... | |
 | Morris Owen Evans - 1922 - 260 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." War means wasted lands, economic loss. Arthur bound the knighthood-errant... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1893 - 920 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." king and knights of the Round-table. Only one thing now remained intact,... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 pages
...land; And still from time to time the heath:n 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... | |
 | 1925 - 616 pages
...land; 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... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 pages
...Germanic warriors began to pour into the land, taking advantage of the disunion which prevailed. "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." The legends concerning the birth of Arthur suggest that he was a... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1994 - 100 pages
...exclusively for sport was approximately three million acres. He was reminded of Tennyson's lines — "And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, And man was less and less." Mr. Gilbert Slater has just published a remarkable work entitled, " The... | |
 | Deirdre David - 1995 - 256 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. 20 Kiernan notes that the writing of the Idylls coincides with the... | |
 | Edward Donald Kennedy - 1996 - 372 pages
...Idylls — and in Tennyson's own society — were to be judged. Arthur's initial desire to control the "great tracts of wilderness / Wherein the beast was ever more and more, / But man was less and less" (The Coming of Arthur, ll. 10-12) and his final disillusionment when he realizes "all... | |
 | Dino Franco Felluga - 2005 - 230 pages
...the desire of fame,/ And love of truth" ["Guinevere" 478-80]), all that will save Britain from the wilderness, "wherein the beast was ever more and more,/ But man was less and less" ("Coming of Arthur" 11-12). For this reason, although the "four great zones of sculpture"... | |
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