| Francis Parkman - 1910 - 400 страници
...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...corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard. They curved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." THE... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1910 - 574 страници
...freely upon the carrion of the hunting-camp. CHAPTER XXIV DOWN THE ARKANSAS They quitted not their armor bright, Neither by 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... | |
| Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 страници
...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,...steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1910 - 222 страници
...the bold Buccleuch. IV Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel ; 25 They quitted not their °harness bright, Neither by...day nor yet by night : They lay down to rest, With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; 30 They carved at the meal With gloves of steel,... | |
| Robert Sangster Rait - 1911 - 372 страници
...exaggeration — " 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 red wine through the helmet barr'd." Particularly barbarous and rude were the middle and western marches, where agriculture gradually... | |
| Robert Sangster Rait - 1911 - 372 страници
...exaggeration — " 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 red wine through the helmet barr'd." Particularly barbarous and rude were the middle and western marches, where agriculture gradually... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1912 - 464 страници
...quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night; They lay down to rest With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard. They carved...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... | |
| 1884 - 624 страници
...Hall, how nine and twenty knights, with as many attendant squires with belted sword and spur on heel, " Quitted not their harness bright, Neither by 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... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 518 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... | |
| Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 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... | |
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