 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 752 pages
...His beard a foot before him, and his hair ^ vard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'dhim, "If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, halfamazed, "You would uot let your little fmger ache For such as these t" — "But I would die," said she. He laugh'd, and... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1902 - 344 pages
...for the figure of fun that Leofric, " the grim Earl," is unintentionally made to represent, with " his beard a foot before him and his hair a yard behind." It is a tripping music-hall line, and the words those of a comic song. Not even a Duke — nay, nor... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - 1903 - 340 pages
...brought Their children clamoring If we pay we starve She sought her lord and found him where he strode His beard a foot before him and his hair A yard behind...tears And prayd him If they pay this tax they starve • 20. Leofric How What is it Godiva I would not in the first hurry of your wrath appeal to you my... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1904 - 1196 pages
...U|xm his town, and all the mothers brought' Their children, clamouring, " If we pay, we starve ! " She sought- her lord, and found him, where he strode About the hall, among his dogs, alone, His heard a foot before him, and his hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, "... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pages
...a tax Upon his town, and all the mothwbrought Their children, clamoring. " If we JBT. we starve ! " She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode About the hall, among his dogs, alon?. His beard a foot before him, and his hiu A yard behind. She told him of that tears. And pray'd... | |
 | 1905 - 644 pages
...diagrams, analyze the sentences themselves: (a) How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood. (b) She sought her lord, and found him where he strode About the hall, among his dogs. (c) ******* tne shameiess noon Was clashed and hammered from a hundred towers. (d) Man comes and tills... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1906 - 880 pages
...tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, " If we pay, we starve!" She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode...his hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, Aiid prayed him, " If they pay this tax, th«y starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half amazed, "... | |
 | Josefine Weissel - 1906 - 764 pages
...Ausdruck ist als stilisiert zu bezeichnen, wie etwa der schon gelegentlich zitierte: 103 a, G o diva, 18: his beard a foot before him, and his hair a yard behind; — symbolische Deutungen wie die von Churton Collins: steady serenity of domestic life, werden dadurch... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins, Agnes Frances Perkins - 1907 - 346 pages
...he laid a tax Upon his town and all the mothers brought Their children clamoring If we pay we starve She sought her lord and found him where he strode...tears And prayd him If they pay this tax they starve 20. Leofric How What is it Godiva I would not in the first hurry of your wrath appeal to you my loving... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - 892 pages
...had forgotten fatigue at the close of a long march, and dashed off in pursuit of some rare insect ; his beard a foot before him, and his hair a yard behind, was now bent and feeble, like that of a very old man.'' He, therefore, after arranging the plans, and... | |
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Godiva, wife to that grim Earl, who ruled In Coventry; for when he laid a tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, "If we pay, we starve! 
