 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...  The French Quarterly - Page 25edited by - 1925Full view - About this book
 | 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 - Bible - 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 - English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 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... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 676 pages
...eat, When, laying by their swords and truncheons, They took their breakfasts, or their nuncheons." " A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Yclad in...marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time never did he wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming bitt, As much disdaining to the curb to... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...placed before the reader's eye, is particularly fine: " A gentle knight was pricking on the plain, Vclad in mighty arms and silver shield. Wherein old dints...marks of many a bloody field ; Yet arms till that time never did he wield : His angry steed did chide his foaming bitt, As much disdaining to the curb to... | |
 | English letters - 1826 - 638 pages
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 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 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 - Chivalry - 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... | |
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