 | John Ruskin - Art - 1918 - 456 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... | |
 | Jasper Mauduit - Massachusetts - 1918 - 954 pages
...Last Minstrel " descriptive of the " Custom of Branksome Hall :" — " They quitted not their armour bright Neither by day nor yet by night ; They lay down to rest with corslet braced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal with gloves of steel, And drank... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...person and in policy, what was once true only of the rough Border riders of your Cheviot hills — Did I see a boy of good make and mind, with the tokens on him of a refined nature, cast upon the wo — do you think that this national shame and dastardliness of heart are not written as legibly on... | |
 | College readers - 1920 - 512 pages
...what was once true only of the rough Border riders of your Cheviot hills — 1 from Traffic. 199 " 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1923 - 824 pages
...Waited duteous on them all: They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. IV Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword...day nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 460 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1859 - 646 pages
..."the vigorous arms " and "iron wills " of many doughty knights of olden time, who, as Scott has it, " Quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor...and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of sleet, And they drank the red wine through the belmet barr'd." We have italicised one of their performances,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Travel - 1982 - 472 pages
...wolves and the vultures to banquet freely upon the carrion of the camp. CHAPTER XXVI. Down the Arkansas. "They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. In the summer of 1846, the wild and lonely banks of the Upper Arkansas... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 502 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... | |
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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... 
