 | Horace Greeley - Industries - 1872 - 1318 pages
...Schiller, in his poem The Glove, describes the incidents attending a combat among wild beasts : — " Now, from the balcony above, A snowy hand let fall a glove ; Midway between the beasts of prej, Lion and tiger, there it lay — A winsome lady's glove ! Fair Cunigonde said, with a lip of... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Industries - 1872 - 1318 pages
...describes the incidents attending a combat among wild beasts : — " Now, from the balcony above, v A snowy hand let fall a glove; Midway between the beasts of prey, Lion and tiger, there h lay — A winsome lady's glove ! Fair Cunigonde said, with a lip of scorn, To the Knight Delorges,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Industries - 1873 - 1320 pages
...Schiller, in his poem The Glove, describes the incidents attending a combat among wild beasts : — " Now, from the balcony above, A snowy hand let fall...glove; Midway between the beasts of prey, Lion and tigor, there it lay — A winsome lady's glove! Fair Cunigonde said, with a lip of scorn, To the Knight... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Voyages and travels - 1873 - 518 pages
...beasts in his deadly hold In the grim embrace they grappled and rolled. Row the lion with a roar ! And stood the strife before ; And the wild-cats on the spot. From the blood thirst, wroth and hot, Halted still ! ' From the gallery raised above, A fair hand dropped a... | |
 | William Gordon McCabe - Ballads - 1879 - 174 pages
...beasts in his deadly hold : In the grim embrace they grappled and rolled; Rose the lion with a roar 1 And stood the strife before ; And the wild-cats on...hot, Halted still! Now from the balcony above A snowy band let fall a glove : Midway between the beasts of prey, Lion and tiger ; there it lay, The winsome... | |
 | Daniel B. Shepp - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1897 - 542 pages
...fearful four: And the monsters on the ground Crouched in a circle round, Greedy to taste of blood. Now, from the balcony above, A snowy hand let fall...tiger, — there it lay, The winsome lady's glove! And the Lady Kunigund, in bantering mood, Spoke to Knight Delorges, who by her stood; — " If the... | |
 | Patriotic poetry - 1908 - 228 pages
...fearful four: And the monsters on the ground Crouched in a circle round, Greedy to taste of blood. Now, from the balcony above, A snowy hand let fall...tiger, — there it lay, The winsome lady's glove! And the Lady Kunigund, in bantering mood, Spoke to Knight Delorges, who by her stood: "If the flame... | |
 | Kuno Francke, Isidore Singer - English literature - 1914 - 614 pages
...beasts in his deadly hold ; In the grim embrace they grappled and roll'd; Rose the lion with a roar! And stood the strife before; And the wild-cats on...tiger; there it lay, The winsome lady's glove! Fair Cunigonde said, with a lip of scorn, To the knight DELORGES — " If the love you have sworn Were as... | |
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Rose the lion with a roar, And stood the strife before ; And the wild-cats on the spot, From the blood-thirst, wroth and hot, Halted still. Now from the balcony above A snowy hand let fall a glove : Midway between the beasts of prey, Lion and tiger, —... 
