 | Lady Frances Parthenope Verney - 1885 - 276 pages
...knights, and thou wert the meekest man and the gentillest that ever ate in hal among ladies, and thou wert the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in rest.' In spite of his great sin, therefore, it is not to be wondered at that the ' hermit, sometime... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 136 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." * Methinks that the tale of the death of Arthur, Guinevere, and of Lancelot, as told by Malory, along... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pages
...knights ; 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,... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 488 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, along... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Duchess - 1888 - 312 pages
...ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 19V 7 L ' 0F IfEW YORIC THE HONOURABLE MRS. YEREIER, CHAPTER I. "A knight there was, and that a worthy man, That from the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chivalry, Truth and honciur, freedom and courtesy."... | |
 | Sir Thomas Malory - 1889 - 560 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. Then there was weeping and dolour out of measure. Thus they kept Sir Launcelot's corpse on loft fifteen... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...knights ; 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
...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. — Morte Darthur. Sir John Fortescue. 1471-6. And sithyn it is necessarie that the Kynge be always... | |
 | 1890 - 176 pages
...and thou wert the meekest man, and the gentlest, that ever ate in hall among ladies ; and thou wert the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest." Then there was weeping and dolor out of measure. Thus they kept Sir Launcelot's corpse fifteen days,... | |
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And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that... 
