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 • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal... The Poetical Works of Walter Scott - Página 17por sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 páginas
...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, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd." The whole scene of the duel, or judicial combat, is conducted according to the strict ordinances... | |
| Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 640 páginas
...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. Quite the reverse. The hero,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1846 - 104 páginas
...They quitted not the harness bright. Neither by day, nor yet by night; They lay down to rest, Witli corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard; They carved at the meed With gloves of steel, And they drank thered wine tlirough the helmet barred, Ten squires, ten... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1854 - 348 páginas
...belted brand, and spur on heel ; They never quit their harness bright Neither by day, nor yet by night. They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed...of steel; And they drank the red wine through the In-hurt barred." This high state of watchfulness against surprise is yet moi d oeauti. fully set forth... | |
| Gallery - 1848 - 306 páginas
...harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With corslet laced, PillowM on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal...steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd." Here, too, at intervals, when the laughter and loud merriment of the feast were suspended,... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 páginas
...heel. They never quit their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night. They lie down to rest In corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard :...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." In the collection at Goodrich Court, chain armour of the time of Edward HI. may be seen, and also plate-armour... | |
| 1849 - 612 páginas
...quitted cot their armor bright, Neither by day nor yet by night; They l«y down to reft With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard. They carved...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.' Till'. I.AT ОГ тнж ЬдаТ MlHSTRBI.. LAST summer the wild and lonely banks of the Upper Arkansas... | |
| John Aikin - 1850 - 764 páginas
...harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillow'<! ld and various as the random gales That swell and...subject lute ! And what if all of animated nature Be b barr'd. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mailclad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten; Thirty steeds, both... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1850 - 428 páginas
...quilted not the harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night ; They lay down to rest, With corset laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drunk the red wine through the helmet barred. But this is all changed now. Observe also the change... | |
| |