 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 420 pages
...hand the armorial truncheon held, That feudal strife had often quell'd, When wildest its alarms. VII. He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave,...on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age, iThe MS. has "Scotland's royal Lion" here; in line 9th, " scarlet tabards ; " and in line 12th, "blazoned... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...grave, and sage, As on King's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, aad sly Expression found its home ; The flash of that...the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. THE NEW LEARNING—ASCHAM. IN 1453 Constantinople was captured by the Turks, and thercupon many learned... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1903 - 732 pages
...condition of Scotland — Why should she want justice and policy more than 1 Scott speaks finely of — "The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of his age, And broke the keys of Rome." Marmion, canto iv. France, Italy, or England ? Probably he hits... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pages
...Attendant on a king-at-arms. Whose hand the armorial tranche held That feudal strife had often quelled .. or unto aged, breath. Sore task to hearts worn out...lowly — With half-dropped eyelid still. Beneath Koine. On milk-white palfrey forth he parai: His cap of maintenance was graced With the proud heron-plume.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 pages
...glowing, Attendant on a King-at-arms, Whose hand the armorial truncheon held, That feudal strife had often his train ; But Redmond saw, and turn'dagain. —...brown, And then his mantle's 7 D Onmilk-white palfrey forthhepac'd; His cap of maintenance was grac'd With the proud heron-plume. From... | |
 | George Christie - 1908 - 342 pages
...Heraldry. Possibly his picture may be the source of Scott's vigorous lines in Marmion, telling how " In the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and...the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome." Lyndsay's publisher, Henry Charteris, in the edition of 1568, says — " Never poeit of our Scottische... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1909 - 992 pages
...feudal strife had often quell'd, When wildest its alarms. He was a man of middle age; In aspect maul}', grave, and sage, As on King's errand come ; But in...of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stag Branded the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. On milk-white palfrey forth hepac His... | |
 | David Hay Fleming - 1910 - 742 pages
...pre-Reformation Church and its clergy, and to bring both Church and clergy into deserved contempt, by " The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on...the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome." James v. had declined to follow the example of Henry vin. in suppressing the monasteries and casting... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1911 - 280 pages
...glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home ; The flash of that satiric 3 rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome.4 1 Trumpeters. 2 See Glossary. ' Sir David Lindesay, Lord Lion King-at-arms, wrote a play called... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1912 - 746 pages
...sh 'w'd his meek and thoughtful eye But littl- pride of pr Licy. (e) A flash of that Satiric ragn, Which, bursting on the early stage. Branded the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. 9. Either, 0 (a) The, Co-ninq of Ar'hur forms p'irt of larger work by Tennyson; what is the title,... | |
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He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on King's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A. penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home ; The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded... 
