gainst the English yew, To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack was braced, and his helmet was laced, And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore : At his saddle-gerthe was a good steel sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more. The Baron returned in three... The poetical works of Walter Scott - Страница 136по sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1894 - 338 страници
...spear. Yet his plate-jack was braced, and his helmet was laced, And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore : At his saddle-gerthe was a good steel sperthe, Full...and sour ; And weary was his courser's pace, As he reach'd his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancram Moor Ran red with English blood ; Where the... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - 1894 - 408 страници
...movement. Compare these two stanzas, and notice the quickening of the movement in the second of them : The baron returned in three days' space, And his looks...his courser's pace. As he reached his rocky tower. My lady each night sought the lonely light That burns on the wild Watchfold, For from height to height... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - 1894 - 394 страници
...movement. Compare these two stanzas, and notice the quickening of the movement in the second of them : The baron returned in three days' space. And his looks...were sad and sour, And weary was his courser's pace. My lady each night sought the lonely light That burns on the wild Watchfold, For from height to height... | |
| Walter Scott - 1894 - 308 страници
...spear. Yet his plate-jack was braced, and his helmet was laced, And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore : At his saddle-gerthe was a good steel sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more. The Baron return'd in three days space, And his looks were sad and sour ; And weary was his courser's pace, As... | |
| Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1913 - 324 страници
...in the absence of her husband, the Baron, and how he slew her lover, Sir Kichard of Coldinghame. " The Baron returned in three days' space. And his looks were sad and sour; And weary was his courier's pace, Аи lie reached hi.s rocky tower. " He lighted at the Chapellage, He held him clo.se... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - 1899 - 392 страници
...seems to be the movement. Compare these two stanzas, both from Sir Walter Scott's Eve of St. John : The baron returned in three days' space, And his looks...his courser's pace, As he reached his rocky tower. My lady each night sought the lonely light That burns on the wild Watchfold, For from height to height... | |
| Walter Scott - 1900 - 618 страници
...sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more. Tne baron retnnrerHn three clays' space, And his looks were s;i ' and sour ; And weary was his courser's pace As he...not from where Ancram Moor ; Ran red with English blootp; " J.~l»oltl Yet was his helmet hacked and hewed, His acton pierced and tore, His axe and his... | |
| Walter Scott - 1902 - 450 страници
...coat-armour ; the vaunt-brace, or wam-brace, armour for the body ; the sperthe, a battle-axe. VOL. IV. I. And weary was his courser's pace, As he reached his rocky tower. He came not from where Ancrum Moor1 Ran red with English blood ; Where the Douglas true, and the bold Buccleuch, 'Gainst keen... | |
| Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1902 - 428 страници
...1n Yet his plate-jack l was braced, and his helmet was laced, And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore ; At his saddle-gerthe was a good steel sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more. IV The Baron return'd in three days' space, And his looks were sad and sour ; 1 The plate-jack is coat-armour... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 страници
...spear. . Yet his plate-jack was braced, and his helmet was laced. And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore; At his saddle-gerthe was a good steel sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more. The Baron return'd in three days space, And his looks were sad and sour ; And weary was his courser's pace, As... | |
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