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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 Atlantic Monthly, Volume 22

1868 - 796 pages
...death, in a just cause, be chivalric, then these generous youths, even in dying, have won their spurs. "The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust ; Their souls are with the saints, we trust." It was during this terrible season, when ships refused to stop, — when day after day we could see...
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Talis Qualis, Or, Tales of the Jury Room

Gerald Griffin - 1857 - 486 pages
...brother chevaliers, ceased to do or to speak, either good or evil for this world : The Knights are dust, Their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust. The hand and tongue that were his instruments either for the one or the other, have been for centuries...
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The Surgeon's Daughter ; Castle Dangerous, Volume 2

Walter Scott - 1859 - 408 pages
...country—not one will parade in moonshine the black armour which has long rusted upon their tombs. ' The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust; Their souls are with the saints, we trust.' * * [The anthor has somewhat altered part of a beantiful unpublished fragment of Coleridge:— " Where...
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The Development of the Associative Principle during the Middle Ages: Three ...

Christopher Barker - 1859 - 126 pages
...of the Order. Now we must leave these interesting sons of the past, joining in the old dirge — " The Knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints we trust." Something must be said of the influence which these Brotherhoods exercised on the age in which they...
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Falconry, its claims, history, and practice, by G.E. Freeman and F.H. Salvin ...

Gage Earle Freeman, Francis Henry Salvin - 1859 - 420 pages
...England," and the solitary Christian warrior who met the lonely Saracen on the plains of Palestine. " The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust ; Their souls are with the saints, we trust." I hope and believe they are with the saints : they are gone at least, but they have not taken everything...
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The Development of the Associative Principle During the Middle Ages. Three ...

Christopher Barker (of Huddersfield.) - 1859 - 122 pages
...of the Order. Now we must leave these interesting sons of the past, joining in the old dirge — " The Knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints we trust." Something must be said of the influence which these Brotherhoods exercised on the age in which they...
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Picturesque Scenery in Wales

John Tillotson - 1860 - 164 pages
...monument, until a louder trumpet shall ring out a summons that shall make the graves give up their dead. The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the Saints — we trust ! Turn we from the Old Castle to the Town. The Manor of Hay was given by Bernard Newmarch to Sir Philip...
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Court life at Naples in our own times, by the author of 'La Cava'., Volume 2

1861 - 382 pages
...civilisation of the poorest English villages, after making for themselves a name and a place in history ! " The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust ; Their souls are with the saints, we trust." After exhausting the treasures of this exquisite neighbourhood, the party continued their progress...
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The Waverley novels. 25 vols., Volume 9

sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1862 - 374 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...too little— " The knights are dust And their good swurds are rusfc, Their souls nre with the saints, we trust. "1 Their escutcheons have long mouldered...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1866 - 356 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...rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.* * These lines are part of an unpublished poem by Coleridge, whose Their escutcheons have long mouldered...
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