 | William Marvel Nevin - 1895 - 526 страници
...Waited, duteous on them all ; They were all knights of metal true Kinsmen to the bold Bucclcuh. • 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1895 - 236 страници
...policy, what was once true only of the rough Border riders of your Cheviot hills — " They carved at ihe 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 630 страници
...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 quitted not the harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night; They lay down to rest With corslet laced. Pillowed... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th Viscount) - 1896 - 514 страници
...warriors of the age, those models of courtesy and bravery, who frequently, upon the battle-field, " Lay down to rest with corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler, cold and hard," would at court be exceptions to the general love of effeminate finery. It was really quite the reverse.... | |
 | Elizabeth Williams Champney - 1899 - 558 страници
...serving one-third of the time, so that the walls were manned night and day. " All of these knights were sheathed in steel With belted sword and spur...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1899 - 220 страници
...: They were all knights of metal true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. IV Ten of them were sheath 'd in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They...quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, not yet by night : They lay down to rest, 5 With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 страници
...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,...night : They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 618 страници
...nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and bard; 30 They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And 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... | |
 | William Clarke Robinson - 1900 - 220 страници
...tall Waited duteous on them all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel ; They quitted not their armour bright, j Neither by day nor yet by night But slept on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at... | |
 | Ida Maria Street - 1901 - 484 страници
...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... 
