 | Douglas Allport - Camberwell (London, England) - 1841 - 314 pages
...inferior rank.0 The figure \vill doubtless remind our readers of the gaunt yeoman in Branksome-hall. Ten of them were sheathed in steel With belted sword...spur on heel ; They quitted not their harness bright Either by day or yet by night ; They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold... | |
 | 1842 - 488 pages
...of metal true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted braid and spur on heel ; They quitted not their harness...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. Such descriptions as these carry us back to long past ages, and enable us in some measure to enter... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...hright, Neither hy day, nor yet hy night: They lay down to rest With corslet laced. Pillowed on huckler cold and hard; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, [harred. And they drank the red wine through the helmet Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...Waited, duteous, on them all : They were all knights of metal true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1844 - 334 pages
...of mettle true, Kinsmen of the bold Buceleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted brand and spur on heel ; They quitted not their harness...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. Such descriptions as this carry us back to long past ages, and enable us in some measure to enter into... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...antique in its conception, though the execution is evidently modern : — " Ten of them were sheath'd in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They...night ; They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carv'd at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...Waited, duteous, on them all: They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleugh. IV. 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...clothed with a romantic interest, which invests even the most common every-day occurrences of life. " They carved at the meal With gloves of steel. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd." Of this opportunity he fully availed himself, in the picture he has here given us of the days... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...antique in its conception, though the execution is evidently modern : — " Ten of them were sheath 'd in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They...night : They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carv'd at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...modern :— «?•" °^ I'lem wefe sheath'd in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : Ineyqiiiiied not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet...night ; They lay down to rest With corslet laced, rillow'd on bnrklcr cold and hard ; They carv'd at the meal With gloves of steel, [met barr'd." And... | |
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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... 
