 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
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 pagina’s
...preceding age. 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,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pagina’s
...shield a knave. Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, 160 tial passions of the heart find a better soil In" which they can attain their maturity, a The gibbet or the field prepared to grace — A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pagina’s
...shield a knave. 165 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, 1 . Sec the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' passim. Never was any plan so incongruous and absurd as the... | |
 | Thorslev - 1999 - 240 pagina’s
...this early satire: 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. (165-170) Marmion... | |
 | 1904 - 672 pagina’s
...usual with him, lashed himself into fury over it. Its hero — "The golden crested, haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls; now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight," is the blot of the poem, but that blot is almost made "white as snow" by the masterly description of... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1921 - 316 pagina’s
...describes the poem : '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.' Scott, writing... | |
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