 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 ページ
...cannot spell, • Despatch a courier to a wizard's grave, And fight with honest men to shield a knave. dead body. Jos. And where will you receive him ? here. I If we can be of service Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 432 ページ
...Lady Douglas and Lady Louisa Stuart, were then visiting the Duke of Montrose; he joined them there, and read to them the Stag Chase, which he had just...Marmion, — " down to " For this we spurn Apollo's renal son, And bid a long ' good-night to Marmion, — ' " with his Lordship's note on the last line... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 ページ
...cannot gain 1 Such be their meed, such still the just reward Of prostituted muse and hireling bard! on fl These are the themes that claim our plaudits These are the bards to whom the muse must bow; While... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 352 ページ
...party. I had taken no unusual or ungenerous 1 Lockhart quotes the passage, which is as follows : " Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 288 ページ
...cannot spell, Despatch a courier to a wizard's grave, And fight with honest men to shield a knave. Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 ページ
...Byron, in his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," spoke contemptuously of a man who wrote for pay. " Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested, haughty Marmion, — For this we spurn Apollo's venal son, And bid a long good-night to Marmion." Bitter feelings naturally... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 ページ
...cannot spell,. Despatch a courier to a wizaid's grave, And fight with honest men to shield a knave. Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 ページ
...cannot spell, Despatch a courier to a wizard's grave, And fight with honest men to shield a knave. Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1899 - 370 ページ
...Bards and Scotch Reviewers," written in 1808. The bitter passage upon Marmion in that poem begins, Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900 - 604 ページ
...cannot gain 1 Such be their meed, such still the just reward Of prostituted muse and hireling bard 1 For this we spurn Apollo's venal son, And bid a long " Good-night to Marmion." * MARMION A TALE OF FLODDEN FIELD Alas ! that Scottish maid should sing The combat where her lover... | |
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Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. 
