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 87by Walter Scott - 1923 - 514 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1895 - 264 pages
...To borrow lines from a contemporary poet, who has written but too little— The knights are dust, 35 And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with...walls of their castles. Their castles themselves are 1 Scott's note on Coleridge is omitted as unnecessary to the study of the narrative, but green mounds... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1895 - 266 pages
...devices, their colours, and 20 the embroidery of their horse trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary...has written but too little— The knights are dust, 25 And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.1 Their escutcheons have... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1895 - 268 pages
...To borrow lines from a contemporary poet, who has written but too little— The knights are dust, 25 And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.1 Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls of their castles. Their castles themselves... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 482 pages
...devices, their colors, and the embroidery of their horse trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary...the saints, we trust.* Their escutcheons have long moldered from the walls of their castles. Their castles themselves are but green mounds and shattered... | |
 | Richard Jefferies - 1896 - 262 pages
...stone pavement of this ancient church the lines might make a good epitaph :— " The knights are dust, Their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust!" Lydiard is now rarely the residence of the present Lord Bolingbroke. Lydiard Millicent is a pleasant... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 pages
...devices, 5 their colours, and the embroidery of their horse trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary...The knights are dust And their good swords are rust, 10 Their souls are with the saints, we trust.' Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 804 pages
...were quoted by Sir Walter Scott in /vanhoe (i. 156), published in 1820 : — ' To borrow lines from n contemporary poet, who has written but too little — The knights are dust, And their good swords rust ; — Their souls are with the saints, I trust.' Sir Walter was quoting, of course, from memory.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 806 pages
...circumstance that a few lines were quoted by Sir Walter Seott in Ivanhoe (i. 156), published in 1820 : — ' To borrow lines from a contemporary poet, who has written but too little — The knights arc dust, And their good swords rust ; — Their souls are with the saints, I trust.' Sir Walter was... | |
 | Richard Garnett, León Vallée (i.e. Alexandre León), Alois Brandl - 1899 - 436 pages
...devices, their colors, and the embroidery of their horse trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary...the saints, we trust. Their escutcheons have long moldered from the walls of their castles. Their castles themselves are but green mounds and shattered... | |
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