 | Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 476 pages
...never yet did in aught." 1 And so of Lancelot it is said : " Thou were head of all Christian knights ; and thou were the courtiest knight that ever bare...that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the 1 The Cid Cycle of poems has fared better than the Nibelungen. Besides the well-known translations... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1889 - 364 pages
...that ever came among presse of knights ; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever eate in hall among ladies ; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortall foe that ever put speare in the rest." Then there was weeping and dolour out of measure. Thus... | |
 | 1890 - 176 pages
...with sword ; and thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights ; 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... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 402 pages
...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,... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1891 - 140 pages
...so of Lancelot it is said : " Thou were head of all Christian knights; and thou were the courtliest knight that ever bare shield ; and thou were the truest...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,... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 244 pages
...the Eomance : — Thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights, and thou wert the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. In the portrait of Lavaine — rapt By all the sweet and sudden passion of youth Towards greatness... | |
 | Charles Cowley - 1892 - 114 pages
...ever strake with sword ; and thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; 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 rest." It is just this chivalrous... | |
 | 1912 - 620 pages
...with sword ; and thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; 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 rest." BANQUET TO CONFEDERATE ALUMNI.... | |
 | Abel S. Clark - 1894 - 304 pages
...with sword; and thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; and thou wert the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou wert the sternest knight to mortal foe that ever put spear in rest.'" ^. The Invention of Printing.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 156 pages
...the goodliest man, etc. Malory (xxi. 13) tells how Lancelot's friend lamented over his dead body : " And thou were the goodliest person ever came among...the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies." Milton (Par. Lost, iv. 323) calls Adam " the goodliest man of men since born His sons." 252. who was... | |
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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,... 
