Chapter 12 of Idylls of the King is here in full — 87 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of Idylls of the King is here in full — 87 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire! The fire of Heaven is not the flame of Hell. “The fire of Heaven is on the dusty ways. The wayside blossoms open to the blaze. The whole wood-world is one full peal of praise.
Chapter 12 of Idylls of the King is here in full — 87 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/17 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
A hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by fire.
From this reading “The fire of Heaven is not the flame of Hell.”
To move from a closed position.
From this reading “The wayside blossoms open to the blaze.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
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From this reading The wayside blossoms open to the blaze.
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From this reading The wayside blossoms open to the blaze.
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From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
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From this reading “The fire of Heaven is on the dusty ways.
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From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
A hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by fire.
From this reading The fire of Heaven is not the flame of Hell.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The whole wood-world is one full peal of praise.
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From this reading The fire of Heaven is not the flame of Hell.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fire of Heaven is not the flame of Hell.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fire of Heaven is not the flame of Hell.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fire of Heaven is not the flame of Hell.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The fire of Heaven is not the flame of Hell.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “The fire of Heaven is on the dusty ways.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The whole wood-world is one full peal of praise.
To move from a closed position.
From this reading The wayside blossoms open to the blaze.
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From this reading The whole wood-world is one full peal of praise.
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From this reading The whole wood-world is one full peal of praise.
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From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The wayside blossoms open to the blaze.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “The fire of Heaven is on the dusty ways.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The wayside blossoms open to the blaze.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The whole wood-world is one full peal of praise.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The whole wood-world is one full peal of praise.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Old priest, who mumble worship in your quire— Old monk and nun, ye scorn the world’s desire, Yet in your frosty cells ye feel the fire!
Chapter 12 of Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson holds 87 sentences, grouped into 18 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 12 holds 87 sentences of Idylls of the King, unabridged, divided into 18 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 87 sentences, grouped into 18 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 18 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 18 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 12 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 207 minutes of reading across 499 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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