 | 1821 - 420 Seiten
...something between a freebooter and a knight, .H-., ;. •• . " Now forging scrolls, riowforemost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight." Hence we trace the unconnected wanderings of a noble, but ruined spirit in Manfred ; and hence we wonder... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 Seiten
...the gallows. And goblin brats, of Gilpin Homer's* brood, Decoy young border-nobles through the wood, And skip at every step, Lord knows how high, And frighten...fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, * The Biography of Gilpin Homer, and the marvellous pedestrian page, who travelled twice as fast as his master's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1822 - 106 Seiten
...disgrace his genius; which is undoubtedly great, by a repetition of black-letter Ballad imitations. i Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight; Not...mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou, SCOTT I by vain conceit percViance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though MURRAY with his MILLER... | |
 | John Mathew Gutch - 1822 - 584 Seiten
...whose points, he may find at last, are dangerous often to those they protect î — but to proceed. " Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepar'd to grace, A mighty mixture of the great and base;" may well apply to him, who makes a trade... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 446 Seiten
...inconsistency. Hence we have the soldier of Flodden Field, something between a freebooter and a knight, " Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight." Hence we trace the unconnected wanderings of a noble, but ruined spirit in Manfred ; and hence we wonder... | |
 | 1824 - 446 Seiten
...inconsistency, Hence we nave the soldier of Flodden Field, something between a freebooter and a knight, " Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight." Hence we trace the unconnected wanderings of a noble, but ruined spirit in Manfred ; and hence we wonder... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 Seiten
...knave. Next in view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, -169 Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet bat half a knight ; The gibbet or the field prepared to grace, A mighty mixture of the great and base.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 340 Seiten
...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 hut half a knight, The gihhet or the field prepared to grace J A mighty mixture of the great and hase.... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 Seiten
...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...grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And thinkest thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchance, Ou public taste to foist thy stale romance, • Though... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 Seiten
...roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, • Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, SNot quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or...to grace; A mighty mixture of the great and base. own elegant phrase, «'t was his neck-verse at hairibee,» ie the gallows. ' The biography of Gilpin... | |
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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. 
