...The leaguing hosts stream round the walls, " As a wild wave in the wide North Sea, Green glimmering toward the summit, bears with all Its stormy crests that smoke against the skies Down on a bark." * Templum in modum arc'u. — Tacitus. The gallant array is broken, as when the ships of Tarshish are...

...until we get to the famous passage in Tennyson's, "Elaine :" — As a wild wave in the wide North-sea, Green-glimmering toward the summit, bears, with all...bark, and overbears the bark, And him that helms it. In a general way, however, it is not so much in painting the open sea whose billows never knew a shore,...

...Lancelot's own family attack him, and All together down upon him Bare, as a wild wave in the wide North Sea, Green-glimmering toward the summit, bears, with all...that smoke against the skies, Down on a bark, and overwhelms the bark And him that helms it, so they overbore i-tir Lancelot and his charger. A memory...

...the wind they made In moving, all together down upon him Bare, as a wild wave in the wide North-sea, Green-glimmering toward the summit, bears, with all...spear Down-glancing lamed the charger, and a spear Priek'd sharply his own cuirass, and the head Pierced thro' his side, and there snapt, and remained....

...In moving all together down upon him, Bare, as a wild wave in the wide North Sea, Green glimmering toward the summit, bears, with all Its stormy crests...it, so they overbore Sir Lancelot and his charger. A spear pierces the knight's armour, and breaks off into his side. Still, he is, of course, victorious;...

...the wind they made In moving, all together down upon him Bare, as a wild wave in the wide North-Sea, Green-glimmering toward the summit, bears, with all...bark, and overbears the bark, And him that helms it, as they overbore Sir Lancelot and his charger, and a spear Down-glancing lamed the charger, and a spear...

...wild wave in the wide North Sea, Green-glimmering toward the summit, bears, with all Its stormy crest that smoke against the skies, Down on a bark, and overbears the bark, And him that helms it" Elaine tends Lancelot in his sickness, and knows not of his love for Guinevere. "Had he seen her first,...

...wild wave in the wide North Sea, Green-glimmering toward the summit, bears, with all Its stormy crest that smoke against the skies, Down on a bark, and overbears the bark, And him that helms it" Elaine tends Lancelot in his sickness, and knows not of his love for Guinevere. " Had he seen her first,...

...the wind they made in moving, all together down upon him bare, as a wild wave in the wide North-sea, green-glimmering toward the summit, bears, with all...spear down-glancing lamed the charger, and a spear pricked sharply his own cuirass, and the head pierced through his side and there snapt and remained....

...cross." CHAPTEE XVI. Storms bg t|j " As a wild wave in the wide north sea, Green glimmering towards the summit, bears with all Its stormy crests that...bark, and overbears the bark, And him that helms it," —IDYLLS Of THE KINO— TENNYSON. WHEN, at the end of another week, Mr and Mrs Hervey returned home,...