 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 With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.  The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem - Side 19af Walter Scott - 1806 - 332 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1805 - 948 sider
...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. V. T^n squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten. Thirty steeds, both fleet... | |
 | Mary Anne McMullan - 1816 - 376 sider
...to rest With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; 316 • They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.' " I would certainly have attempted to follow these gentlemen, had I not presently been attracted by... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 sider
...down to rest, With corselet laced, Pillowed on huckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet harred. V. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mailclad men, Waited the heck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,... | |
 | 1820 - 480 sider
...lay down to rest tVith corslets laced Pillow' d on buckler cold and hard ; Shey carved at meal With gloves of Steel . And they drank the red wine, through the helmet barred. Der Abend iß gekommen , das Mahl vorüber, Ruhe herrfcht in der Fehdegerüßeten Burg. Die Burgfrau... | |
 | 1844 - 640 sider
...the very roughness and primitive artlessness of their society, and when They carved at the meal With gloves of steel. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd. TO A MUTTON CHOP. BY JAMES KENNEY, ESQ. DEAR little, modest, modicum, Of food for modest bard,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 sider
...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. V. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mail-clad men, Waited the beck of the warders ten ; Thirty steeds,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1835 - 356 sider
...lay down to rest Wiih corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard; They carved at the meal In 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... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 sider
...down to rest, With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through...barred. V. Ten squires, ten yeomen, mailclad men, Wailed the beck of the warders ten; Thirty steeds, both fleet and wight, Stood saddled in stable day... | |
 | C M. J - 1839 - 302 sider
...Wee cannot eat with mailed hand, *Nor drink through helmet's barre. * They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred. LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. i " I wist not Avhere I now may find A champion stronge and tall, Before... | |
 | James Abraham Hillhouse - 1839 - 272 sider
...lead the thoughts involuntarily to the iron character of the times : " They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred." The draw-bridge, the fosse, and the battlements, all speak of danger without, and of courage and selfreliance... | |
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