 | 1867 - 416 pages
...these were clad in blue, And to their broad-swords stuck like glue ; They quitted not their steel so bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With doublet all braced, Pillowed on plank so rough and hard ; They carved at the meal With sword of true... | |
 | 1867 - 410 pages
...these were clad in blue, And to their broad-swords stuck like glue; They quitted not their steel so bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night: They lay down to rest With doublet all braced, Pillowed on plank so rough and hard; They carved at the meal With sword of true... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
..."Waited, duteous, on them all: They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Bueclench. Ten of them were sheathed In steel, With belted sword,...They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed on bnckler cold and ha n I : They carved at the meal With gloves of steel. And they drank the red wine... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pages
...tall Waited duteous, on them all: They were all knights of metal true, Kinsmen to the bold Bucclench. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 pages
...Nine-and-twenty yeomen tall 58 They were all knights of metal true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...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. Ten squires, ten... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1869 - 822 pages
...a strargely similar state of things — ten knights, ten squires, and ten yeomen, " mailclad men," "quitted not their harness bright, neither by day nor yet by night," and Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day and night. Our troopers are always... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - Generals - 1869 - 538 pages
...feudal monarchies ; when "Nine and twenty knights of fame Hung- their shields in Branksome Hall, And quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night ; But carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And drank the red wine through the helmet barred." These... | |
 | Glasgow Academical Club - English literature - 1870 - 138 pages
...of what border life must have been. Scott occasionally strikes something like the same note : — " Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword...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." His lines, however,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...Waited, dnteous, on them all : They were all knights of mettle trne, Kinsmen to the bold Bacclcach. 4 Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword,...lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on bnckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, . , , And they drank the red... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 556 pages
...barbarous constraint of this custom. " Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, find spur on heel ; They quitted not their harness bright,...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." But all this is... | |
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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... 
