...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...

...the Baron of the Bags, very greatly to the disadvantage of our friend the Bag-baron. In the old day They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine thro' the helmet barred. In our day The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should...

...fall on the ear like repeated strokes of sword or hammer. Of the Knights of Branksomc, Scott says: " They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by...they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." And when Marmion sees the splendid Scottish army in battle array, he does not wonder that the Scotch...

...all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheath'd in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel: They...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...

...obstruction were used. The Roman Catholics kept an Archbishop, a Duke, and an Earl in readiness : " With belted sword and spur on heel They quitted not...harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night," and the Wesleyans had their doughty champion at the Westminster Training College, who " Carved at the...

...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; 1— do you think that this national shame and dastardliness of heart are not written as legibly...

...war. Here, if anywhere, men had to be ready by day and ready by night. "—they carved at the nienl With gloves of steel And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." There may have been banqueting hall and chapel, but we saw them not, only the massive round tower of...

...all : They were all knights of mettle true, Kinsmento the bold Buccleuch. Ten of them were sheath'd in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They...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...

...effort to break out from his position of enforced neutrality. Like the knights of Branksome Hall, who ' quitted not their harness bright, neither by day nor yet by night,' we must be ever on the alert — ' They carved at the meal with gloves of steel, And they drank the...

...THE ARKANSAS And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. "They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by...hard. They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, IN the summer of 1846 the wild and lonely banks of the Upper Arkansas beheld, for the first tune, the...