 | Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 472 pages
...for the Empress Eugenie (Paris, 4to, 1858), the text with a prose version, commentary, and glossary. sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest."1 Methinks that the tale of the death of Arthur, Guinevere, and of Lancelot, as told by Malory,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1887 - 952 pages
...ever came among the presse of knights. And thou wert the meekest man and the gentlest that ever eate in hall among ladies. And thou wert the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put speare in the rest." FORTUNE-TELLING. Each city, each town, and every village. Affords us either an... | |
 | Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 494 pages
...thou wert the kindest man that ever strook with sword. And thou wert the meekest man that ever eate In hall among ladies. And thou wert the sternest knight to thy Mortal foe that ever put speure in rest.— Marie d' Arthur. and impossible to analyze it. All history *ecmed to be at his command,... | |
 | Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 448 pages
...wert the kindest man that ever strook with sword. And thou wert the meekest man that ever eate in halt among ladies. And thou wert the sternest knight to thy Mortal foe that ever put speare in rest.— Morte <!' Arthur. It is difficult to speak soberly at this time of the gallant soldier,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Malory - 1889 - 560 pages
...; and thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies ; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.' Let me compare with this Chaucer's description of the knight of his times : — 'A knight there was,... | |
 | 1890 - 176 pages
...truest lover, of a sinful man, that ever loved woman ; and thou wert the kindest man that ever struck with sword ; and thou wert the goodliest person that...put spear in the rest." Then there was weeping and dolor out of measure. Thus they kept Sir Launcelot's corpse fifteen days, and then they buried it with... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 402 pages
...that ever came among press of knights; and thou wert the meekest man and the gentlest that ever eat in hall among ladies ; and thou wert the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in rest. SWEET IS THE ROSEEDMUND SPENSER. SWEET is the rose, but grows upon a brere ; Sweet is the juniper,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.' " Equally good, as an example of English prose narrative, was the translation made by John Bourchier,... | |
 | John Earle - 1890 - 552 pages
...; and thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies ; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest. — Morte Darthur. Sir John Fortescue. 1471-6. And sithyn it is necessarie that the Kynge be always... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1891 - 140 pages
...knights; and thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.11 Methinks that the tale of the death of Arthur, Guinevere, and of Lancelot, as told by Malory,... | |
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... and thou were the truest lover, of a sinful man, that ever loved woman ; and thou wert the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou wert the meekest man, and the gentlest,... 
