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" The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.'* Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls of their castles. "
Ivanhoe - Page 87
by Walter Scott - 1923 - 514 pages
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The Waverley Novels, Volume 9

Walter Scott - 1893 - 532 pages
...devices, their colours, and the embroidery of their horse trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary...little— The knights are dust, And their good swords are mst, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.* Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls...
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Notes and Queries

1884 - 682 pages
...a knight, and might have perhaps been worn by the King-maker or his son-in-law Richard III.: — " The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust." The ancient collegiate church at Middleham has recently undergone an excellent and a judicious restoration,...
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Notes and Queries

1884 - 576 pages
...a knight, and might have perhaps been worn by the King-maker or his son-in-law Richard III.: — " The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust." The ancient collegiate church at Middleham has recently undergone an excellent and a judicious restoration,...
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Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada

Royal Society of Canada - 1914 - 1118 pages
...acclamations joyeuses et triomphales, sont aujourd'hui silencieux. Ceux qui les poussaient ont disparu. The Knights are dust And their good swords are rust: Their souls are with the saints we trust. Lettres de 1835 et de 1836. PAK A.-D. DECELLES, CMG, LL.D. (Lu le 28 mai 1913). Un jour que j'6tais...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 20

1856 - 408 pages
...manliest knight that ever couched a lance for ladye's gift. And many more could we name, but alas " The Knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints we trust." My great grandfather, Sir Junius Grandison, once wrote a manuscript upon manners. This has been reverentially...
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Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Volume 24

British Archaeological Association - 1868 - 480 pages
...as theirs have been ; and that of us, too, it may be sung as it was of them of old, that although " The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints we trust." Burford, then, as Eyton tells us, was the caput of Osbern Fitz Richard's Shropshire barony, and it...
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Transactions, Volume 5

Exeter diocesan architectural and archaeological society - 1856 - 306 pages
...in many a painted pane, or, cut in stone, hang by their guiges on monument or corbel stone. "Those knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints we trust." But where are their habitations! The only writer ever qualified to chronicle them has said, their "escutcheons...
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United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Volume 50, Page 1

1846 - 670 pages
...occupied •with all the authority of feudal proprietors and feudal lords. ' The knights are dust, Their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints — we trust.' " " In the reign of Stephen*, (which contained all the ills of feudality to be found in history,)"...
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Pratt Institute Monthly, Volume 5

Pratt Institute - 1897 - 616 pages
...as we were privileged to do, this scene of their actual beings and doings. " Their bones are dust. Their good swords are rust. Their souls are with the saints, we trust." But their memories, redolent with a romance and interest akin to that which surrounds the Pilgrim Fathers...
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Masonic Voice and Review, Volumes 62-64

1885 - 966 pages
...Crusaders' tents, and made red by the commingled blood of Christian and Mohammedan. "The Knights are dust; Their good swords are rust; Their souls are with the saints, we trust." After this lapse of centuries we take up the same standards they bore, wearing the same hallowed symbols....
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