 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 - 1885 - 526 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. For first Aurelius lived and fought and died, i And after him King... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...the land ; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was 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 - 1889 - 894 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 - 1891 - 186 pages
...treachery of Guinevere and Lancelot. 26. Reels ... beast. Cf. The Coming of Arthur, 10-12 : — " 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," and The Last Tournament, 122-5 : — " Or whence the fear lest this... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...the land; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was 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 - 1892 - 904 pages
...the land; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was 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... | |
 | William Hume Elliot - 1893 - 476 pages
...the old order was changed. The words of Tennyson, descriptive of a much earlier period — "And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more. But man was less and less,":1 might now once more be reversed. The man, henceforth, "was ever more and more." And... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 pages
...what was left. In vain Aurelius and Uther fought and died. Chaos was too strong for them — " And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less." Upon this ruin of a departed order enters Arthur, of mysterious origin, brought by... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 462 pages
...remain ; " 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." ' What wonder that the people clamour for a King,2 or that even those... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1894 - 626 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... | |
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