| Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 ページ
...sheathed in steel, AVith belted sword and spur on heel ; They quitted uot their harness bright, K either by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With...corslet laced. Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carvci at the meal With gloves of steel, [barred. And they drank the red wine through the helmet v... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 614 ページ
...by night : They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, PUlow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carv'd at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. i squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, lited the beck of the warders ten ; irty steeds, both... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1891 - 570 ページ
...Waited, duteous, on them all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Bucclench. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet hcrred' Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1891 - 284 ページ
...Brought their steeds to bower from sta'l, Nine and twenty yeomen tall Wailed, duteous, on them all. . . . Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved a: the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." Now, is not... | |
| John Ruskin - 1891 - 552 ページ
...person and in policy, what was once true only of the rough Border riders of your Cheviot hills — ' They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd ; — do you think that this national 'shame and dastardliness of heart are not written as legibly... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1893 - 144 ページ
...Walter Scott, in the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," we learn the barbarous constraint of this custom. " Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." But all this is changed now. Observe the change in architecture and in domestic life. Places once chosen... | |
| Wallace Bruce - 1893 - 292 ページ
...the customs of Branksome Hall, where " eternal vigilance " was indeed " the price of liberty," for " They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." The ' Lady of the Lake ' of the same year pictures the southern Highlands, the summoning of the 152... | |
| Lew Wallace - 1893 - 592 ページ
...worn was a passion, out of which he evolved a suite rivalling those kinsmen of the Buccleuch who— " —quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night." Returning once again. It was hoped when Mirza was first introduced that every one who might chance... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 248 ページ
...about to be written. ' Nine and twenty knights of fame Hung their shields in Branksome Hall. . . . Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword...steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.' The ascendency of the classical school was at an end in Germany as in England, and from Burger... | |
| Walter Scott - 1894 - 208 ページ
...Waited, duteous, on them all; They were all knights of mettle true. Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...day, nor yet by night; They lay down to rest, With corselet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And... | |
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