 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 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. as fast as his master's horse, without the aid of seven-leagued boots, are chfjs d'truvre in the improvement... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 Seiten
...shield a knave. Next view in state, proud prancing on bis roan. The golden-crested haughty Marmion, P 170 And think 'st thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance.... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 850 Seiten
...36. MARMION 1808 Next view in state, prond prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet bnt half a knight, The gihbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base.... | |
 | 1916 - 792 Seiten
...; While high-born ladies in their magic cell, Forbidding knights to read who cannot spell, Despatch ngues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,...where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse 1 by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller3... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 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...mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou, Scott 1 by vain conceit age; Though Murray with hie Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half -a crown... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...to grace; A mighty mixture of the great and base. (165-170) Marmion has indeed all the features of the complete Noble Outlaw. He has first of all the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 258 Seiten
...in The Lay, and Mannion is an attempt at the study of a flawed hero, admirably sketched by Byron as Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not...prepared to grace; A mighty mixture of the great and base,12 Impact in Scott's narrative poems is sometimes diminished by digressive, often whimsical, excursions... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1921 - 316 Seiten
...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...to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base.' Scott, writing in 1830, says: "The poem was finished in too much haste to allow me an opportunity of... | |
 | 1904 - 672 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
