 | Edmund Spenser - 1758 - 574 pages
...of true Holinefs, Foul Error doth defeat : JJypocrifie, him to entrap* Doth to his bome intreat. T A gentle Knight was pricking on the plain, Yclad in mighty arms and filver fhield, Wherein old dints of deep wounds did remain, The cruel marks of many a bloody field;... | |
 | Samuel Horsley - 1820 - 486 pages
...imagery of the Hebrew in this place is the same. But it is a figurative chase. The wild beasts are men, A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Yclad in mighty arms and silver shield, His angry steed did chide his foming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield, Spenser, Fairy Queen.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...SPENSER— AD 1553-1598. UNA AND THE REDCROSS KNIGHT. A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Yelad Hall did he never wield: His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...SPENSER— AD 1553-1598. UNA AND THE REDCROSS KNIGHT. A GENTLE knight was prieking on the plain, Yelad That eruel marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time did he never wield : His angry steed did... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...SPENSER. UNA AND THE REDCROSS KNIGHT. "The heavenly Una and her milk-white lamb." — Wordsworth, " A gentle knight* was pricking on the plain, Yclad|...marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time did he never wield ; His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1828 - 416 pages
...they trusted to it in death. Who does not feel the beauty of that description in the Fairy Queen ? " A gentle knight was pricking on the plain Yclad in mighty arms and silver shield, And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweet sake... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues.' ITNA AND THE KE0-CBOSS KNIGHT. A GENTLE knight was pricking on the plain,. Yclad...marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time did he never wield :. His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 404 pages
...the artist, as he pencilled this opening scene, thought on the picturesque beginning of Spenser. " A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Y-clad...many a bloody field — Yet arms, till that time, did he never wield. His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield.... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 332 pages
...puffed up by success. We find him asleep on the ground, with his horse grazing near, *. — — > ^ Wherein old dints of deep wounds did remain, The cruel...of many a bloody field— Yet arms, till that time, did he never wield, His angry steed did chide his foaming bit, As much disdaining to the curb to yield.... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1837 - 334 pages
...the artist, as he pencilled this opening scene, thougor on the picturesque beginning of Spenser. " A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Y-clad in mighty arms and. silver shield, Underneath is written " In gallant train the noble knight goes forth, Armed in the cause of God and... | |
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A GENTLE knight was pricking on the plain, Yclad in mighty arms and silver shield, Wherein old dints of deep wounds did remain, The cruel marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time did he never wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming... 
