 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
 | Walter Riddell Carre - 1876 - Počet stránok 424
...already mentioned. He was a very eminent scholar and poet, and, as a brother bard says, he was — " More pleased, that in a barbarous age, He gave rude...Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The bishoprick of fair Dunkeld." He died of the plague in London, and is buried in the now beautiful church... | |
 | Walter Riddell Carre - 1876 - Počet stránok 404
...already mentioned. He was a very eminent scholar and poet, and, as a brother bard says, he was — " More pleased, that in a barbarous age, He gave rude...Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The bishopriok of fair Dunkeld." He died of the plague in London, and is buried in the now beautiful church... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1876 - Počet stránok 428
...his meek and thoughful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a barbarous age, lie gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkcld." And now let my general readers observe, finally, about all reading,—You must read, for... | |
 | John Peile - 1877 - Počet stránok 176
...older than Shakespeare—Gawin Douglas, who died in 1522, and who, as Sir Walter Scott tells us, was " More pleased that in a barbarous age He gave rude...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld." The lines, which are part of the prologue to the twelfth book of the translation of the Mneid run as... | |
 | 1877 - Počet stránok 932
...lord 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...Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule be held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld." Among the lost monuments were an Elizabethan tomb, ascribed,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - Počet stránok 528
...lord 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...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld." Over the font is preserved the central compartment of a triptych, painted for the Savoy in the fourteenth... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1878 - Počet stránok 392
...his official relations as provost of St. Giles's, is par excellence the Edinburgh laureate : — " More pleased that, in a barbarous age, He gave rude...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld ; " or that, as a younger son of Archibald, fifth Earl of Angus, he ranked with the noblest of the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - Počet stránok 326
...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. Eeside him ancient Angus stood, Doffed his furred gown, and sable hood : O'er his huge form and visage... | |
 | William Stevens Perry - 1880 - Počet stránok 282
...blood, With mitre sheen and rocquet while, Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye But little thought of prelacy; More pleased that, in a barbarous age,...beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld. Another versifier, George Wither, the poet of the Commonwealth, lies here without a monument. In this... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - Počet stránok 474
...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... | |
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