 He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on King's errand come; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly' Expression found its home ; The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded...  Good Words - Side 5571878Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 sider
...when he assumed it : — ' He was a man of middle age, In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on king's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating,...the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. On milk-white palfrey forth he paced ; His cap of maintenance was graced With the proud heron-plume... | |
 | Robert Macgregor - 1881 - 226 sider
...above them all, Both at the butts and the foot ball, the Lord Lyon tells us, while the same poet, in a Flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the...Branded the vices of the age And broke the keys of Rome, makes a priest boast that, though he does not preach, I wot there is not one among you all Mair ferylie... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 474 sider
...When wildest its alarms. He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on King's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating,...the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. On milk-white palfrey forth he paced ; His cap of maintenance was graced With the proud heron-plume.... | |
 | Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot - 1882 - 192 sider
...Readers of Marmwn may remember the description of the Lord Lyon King at Arms in Canto IV. — ' How in the glances of his eye A penetrating, keen, and...the vices of the age And broke the keys of Rome." It would be of course quite impossible in such a work as the present to give even the merest sketch... | |
 | Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot - 1882 - 192 sider
...Readers of Marmion may remember the description of the Lord Lyon King at Arms in Canto IV. — ' How in the glances of his eye A penetrating, keen, and...bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age It would be of course quite impossible in such a work as the present to give even the merest sketch... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 684 sider
...wildest its alarms. 7. He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on king's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home ; The Hash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age, And broke... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 432 sider
...When wildest its alarms. He was a man of middle age, In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on King's errand come , But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home ...... Still is thy name in high account, And still thy verse hath charms; SIR DAVID LINBESAY or THE... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 182 sider
...wildest its alarms. VII. He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on King's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating,...the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. On milk-white palfrey forth he paced ; His cap of maintenance was graced With the proud heron-plume.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 184 sider
...wildest its alarms. VII. * He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on King's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating,...the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. On milk-white palfrey forth he paced ; His cap of maintenance was graced With the proud heron-plume.... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1883 - 156 sider
...lines alternate, eg : — " Ho was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sago, As on king's errand come ; But, in the glances of his eye, A penetrating,...the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. On milk-white palfrey forth he pac'd ; His cap of maintenance was grac'd With the proud heron-plume.... | |
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