...trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary poet, who has written but too little— ' The knights are...ruins — the place that once knew them, knows them no more — nay, many a race since theirs has died out and been forgotten in the very land which they...

...trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary poet, who has written but too little — " The knights are...ruins — the place that once knew them, knows them no more — nay, many a race since theirs has died out and been forgotten in the very land which they...

...trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary poet, who has written but too little— " The knights are...castles themselves are but green mounds and shattered ruins—the place that once knew them, knows them no more—nay, many a race since theirs has died...

...Lion, as needs be wished for. The gallant knights are distinguished by their belts and gilded spurs. The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust. Two grades of knights were instituted somewhat later — the banneret and the bachelor. The retinue...

...CHIVALRY. WE are now arrived at that part of our subject CHAP. where we may say with the poet, VII, " The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust : Their souls are with the saints, we trust." With Italy the historical tracing ceases of that system of principles which for so many centuries formed...

...OF CHIVALRY. are now arrived at that part of our subject CHAP. where we may say with the poet, VIL " The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust : Their souls are with the saints, we trust." With Italy the historical tracing ceases of that system of principles which for so many centuries formed...

...dust, And their good swords are rust," and all that they did lives only in the page of the poet. " Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls...ruins — the place that once knew them knows them no more — nay, many a race since theirs has died out and been forgotten in the very land which they...

...who follow his standard. The vision is over, the airy castle has vanished — " The knights are dust, Their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints we trust." And a rude and solitary boat is rocking under the windows of a poor white -washed wirthshaus, which,...

...country — not one will parade in moonshine the black armour which has long rusted upon their tombs. ' The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust; Their souls are with the saints, we trust.** Look around, Sir Knight, you have above and around you the men of whom we speak. Beneath us, in a little...

...castle, to mingle in the frays and combats of that unsettled period, have slept their final sleep. " The knights are dust, " And their good swords are rust, " Their souls are with the saints, we trust ;" although charity herself could scarcely subscribe to the last sentiment of the poet as an article...