 Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base.  The Etonian - Pagina 1821820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 352 pagina’s
...as follows : " Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 288 pagina’s
...shield a knave. Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1887 - 304 pagina’s
...a character receives from the use of this figure, modern writers have followed, in this point, the example of their great forerunner, and have thrown...times, Linked with one virtue and a thousand crimes. Jtfow, for the instruction of our readers in this elegant, nay, necessary accomplishment, we must begin... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1887 - 300 pagina’s
...Flodden Field, something between a freebooter and a knight — Now forging scrolls, now foremost in lhe fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight. Hence...other times, Linked with one virtue and a thousand ciimes. Now, for the instruction of our readers in this elegant, nay, necessary accomplishment, we... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pagina’s
...shield a knave. Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan The golden-crested haughty Marmion, s of fear, LXXIV. The The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou,... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 pagina’s
...shield a knave. Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou,... | |
 | Henry Arthur Jones - 1894 - 136 pagina’s
...ensue. Byron in his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers speaks of Scott's Marmion as " Now forging deeds, now foremost in the fight ; Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight." Some similar words — not quite a felon, yet but half a saint — might describe the feeling generally... | |
 | Henry Arthur Jones - 1894 - 136 pagina’s
...ensue. Byron in his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers speaks of Scott's Marmion as " Now forging deeds, now foremost in the fight ; Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight." Some similar words — not quite a felon, yet but half a saint — might describe the feeling generally... | |
 | Karl Hoffmann - 1898 - 74 pagina’s
...Zeilen: Next comes in state, prond prancing on bis roan, The golden - crested haughty „Mannion", Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace — A mighty mixture of the great and base. Beifall enthalten... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1899 - 370 pagina’s
...that poem begins, Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. Southey objected... | |
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