 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 pages
...Waited, duteous, on them all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Bucclench. rv. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...not their harness bright. Neither by day, nor yet by nignt : They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Kl lowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved... | |
 | William Wheater - Cawood (North Yorkshire, England) - 1865 - 196 pages
...been brewed, will account for such a multitude of men, who Lay down to rest With the corslet braced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard; They carved at...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. as have rarely gathered together even in the hospitable halls of Cawood. In 1314, Edward II. made a... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 552 pages
...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 - Fourth of July orations - 1893 - 144 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Istanbul (Turkey) - 1893 - 592 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1894 - 248 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | JOHN RUSKIN - 1894 - 578 pages
...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 518 pages
...policy, what was once true only of the rough Border riders of your Cheviot hills — ' They carved nt 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 dastardliuess of heart are not written as legibly... | |
| |
Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night... 
