 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 436 pages
...W'alter Scott, in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, we may learn the barbarous constraint of this costume. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel ; They quitted not the harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night ; They lay down to rest, With corset laced, Pillowed... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...bold Bneeleneh. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spnr on heel : They qnitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With eorslet lae'd, Pillow'd on bnekler eold and hard ; They earv'd at the meal With gloves of steel, And... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 428 pages
...Walter Scott, in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, we may learn the barbarous constraint of this costume. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel ; They quilted not the harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night ; They lay down to rest, With corset... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...Nine-and-twenty squires of name They were all knights of mettle tme, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard 5 They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Frontier and pioneer life - 1852 - 466 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...Pillowed on buckler cold and hard. They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.* THE LAY OF THE LAST... | |
 | Andrew Bell (of Southampton) - Feudalism - 1852 - 458 pages
...Bucclengh. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, AVith belted sword and spur on heel : They quitted uot their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night...Pillowed on buckler cold and hard : They carved at the meal lu gloves of steel ; And they drank the red wine thro' the helmet barr'd." Even the horses of... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...conception, though the execution is evidently modern : — " Ten of them were sheath'd in steel, Wiih belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not...by 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, [met barr'd." And... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Frontier and pioneer life - 1852 - 462 pages
...vultures to banquet freely upon the carrion of the camp. CHAPTER XXVI. DOWN THE ARKANSAS. " They qnitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night ; They lay down to rest With corelet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard. They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 pages
...great festival to peace; while her neighbours, like the knights of Branksome, may be said — To lie down to rest with corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard, To carve at the meal in gloves of steel, And drink the red wine through the helmet barred. Such might... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...veré all knight« of mettle true, Kia-шеп to the bold Bucclcuch. IV. Ten of them were eheathcd in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Xeither by day, nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Piflow'd on buckler cold... | |
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