 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...character was a later addition (probablv through church influence) to the old Arthurian legend. MY good blade carves the casques * of men, My tough lance...shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands t shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. My good blade curves the casques of meii, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel They reel, they roll in clanging lists,... | |
 | 1887 - 532 pages
...poetic type, and Tennyson's lines upon Sir Galahad have been often in our mind in describing him : ' My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance...as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.' And if we add that he was ' Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love,' we... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - Periodicals - 1876 - 698 pages
...as he comes cantering into the ring. We can almost realise the Laureate's lines : ' The eplinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel ; They reel, they roll in clanging lists, And when the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers, ц . That... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1876 - 184 pages
...an action. They are introduced by Because, Since, For, As, That. They have always the Indicative : My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. — Tennyson. As he was ambitious, I slew him. — Shakespeare. I am right glad that he's so out of... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 420 pages
...for laurels, with helmet and breastplate and lance in rest, can the true knight exultingly exclaim, "My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure ;" but wherever man meets man, wherever there is a prize to be won, a goal to be reached. Wealth, and... | |
 | Mary Neville - 1876 - 308 pages
...wholly deserted. CHAPTER XI. " My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sore, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." TENNYSON. " IT would be the greatest possible help, Miss Helmore ; but of course you must not overtire... | |
 | George Melville Baker - English poetry - 1877 - 190 pages
...hear our prayer! Bless the life-boat ! Bless the life-boat ! No longer we '11 despair. ALAHAD. jf|Y good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance...The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging lists, And when the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in showers, That lightly... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pages
...with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. llvgood blnde carves the casque* of men, My tough lance thrusteth snre, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly. The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging... | |
 | Elizabeth Williams Champney - Astronomy - 1877 - 300 pages
...that it makes much difference after all. I am like Arthur's knights in one thing at least : — " ' My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance...as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. ' " Joy looked at the great Sun in admiration ; what a worker he was, to be sure ! He was busier every... | |
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MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. 
