 Douglas blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white. Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a barbarous age, He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Strana 1391887Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - Počet stránok 510
...of Douglas' blood. With mitre sheen, and rosquet white. Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye, But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that in a barbarous...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld." Canto VI. Bishop Gawain was compelled by the troubles in Scotland to flee from his native country,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - Počet stránok 590
...of Douglas' blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white. Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a...barbarous age, He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Thau that beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld. Beside him ancieut Angus stood, Doff'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - Počet stránok 914
...sheen, and rocquet white. Yet show'd lib* meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; Mori! pleased that, in a barbarous age, He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Tlian that beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld. Beside him ancient Angus stood,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - Počet stránok 776
...lord of Douglas blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white. Yet showed his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld. Beside him ancient Angus stood, Doff 'd his furr'd gown, and sable hood : O'er his huge form and visage... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - Počet stránok 420
...white. Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye 1 [MS.— " You might not by their shine descry."] But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld. Beside him ancient Angus stood, Doff 'd his furr'd gown, and sable hood : O'er his huge form and visage... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - Počet stránok 428
...and of many other poetical pieces of great merit. He had not at this period attained the mitre. But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld. Beside him ancient Angus stood, Doff 'd his furr'd gown, and sable hood : O'er his huge form and visage... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - Počet stránok 364
...of Douglas' blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white. Yet showed his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld. Beside him ancient Angus stood, Doffed his furred gown, and sable hood : O'er his huge form, and visage... | |
 | John Marshall (minister of the Scottish episc. church.) - 1859 - Počet stránok 496
...lord of Douglas blood, With mitre sheen, and roquet white. Yet shewed his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld. — Marmion, 5th Canto. t Literally, Croitadei. 1214. Death of King William. Alexander II. Council... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1860 - Počet stránok 798
...throws a lustre round the name of the man with whom it originated. If Gawaine Douglas had reason to be " More pleased that in a barbarous age He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his sway he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld," honour surely is due to him who gave to a people much... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1862 - Počet stránok 532
...obsolete language which mars its sentiment and obscures its imagery, — that it "pleased him more," " that in a barbarous age He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The biahoprick of fair Dunkeld." Not such, however, was the principle on which Sir Walter estimated his... | |
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