 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 New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Стр. 5971844Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - Страниц: 154
...Fr. corselet, dim. of Old Fr. cors— Lat. corpus, the body. 90 Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; 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 i 35 Thirty steeds,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1885 - Страниц: 568
...day nor yet by night' They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helm«t horredTen squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - Страниц: 366
...day, nor yet by 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 red wino through the helmet barr'd. v. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1886 - Страниц: 840
...and in policy, what was once true only of the rough Border riders of your Cheviot hills — ''i'-ry 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 on... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1887 - Страниц: 690
...day, nor yet by 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 red wine through the helmet barr'd. Ten squires, ten yeomen mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds, both fleet... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - Страниц: 840
...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 bffrr'd ;— do you think that this national shame and dastardlincss of heart are not written as legibly... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1887 - Страниц: 388
...day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." When these metrical tales lost influence before the growing fame of Byron, Scott broke with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - Страниц: 682
...nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With co'rselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. v. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,... | |
 | William M'Dowall - 1888 - Страниц: 370
...day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With corset laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of 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, both fleet... | |
 | James Brown - 1889 - Страниц: 366
...of Cockburnspath Tower, he repeated from the Lay of the Last Minstrel 'all about Branksome Hall : " They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." The Tower rang with his laughter when his companion said to him in the vernacular which she... | |
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