 I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...  The Quarterly Review - Page 3881871Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1873 - 552 pages
...o o K To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. h 3 h X O D M £ I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were O QC s h 3 Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1877 - 392 pages
...company, the flower of men. To serve as model for the mighty world. And he the fair hegiuning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their couscience, and their couscience as their King, To hreak the heathen and nphold the Christ, To ride... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1878 - 688 pages
...company, the flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time, made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only,... | |
 | Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma - Land's End (England) - 1878 - 222 pages
...ancient age — than in most parts of our country. CHAPTER VI. r THE RESTORATION AND THE REVOLUTION. " I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the king, as if he were Their conscience, ond their conscience as their king, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ. Tennyson, OTHING could... | |
 | Dover coll - 1883 - 326 pages
...should not be bound by, yet tin1 which No man can keep." These vows bound the new-made knights : — " To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as the King. To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it ; To honour... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...company, the flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only,... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pages
...brief quotation ; our readers will find the full passage towards the close of "Guinevere " : — " To reverence the king, as if he were Their conscience,...wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only,... | |
 | George Smith - Great Britain - 1879 - 140 pages
...public character of our times, that his mission has been that of the Knights of the Hound Table — " To reverence the King as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King ; To teach the heathen and uphold the Christ ; To ride abroad redeeming human wrongs ; To speak no slander,... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1879 - 618 pages
...shame A man should not be bound by. yet the which No man can keep ; " or these from " Guinevere," '• To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King." * * * * " Ah great and gentle lord. Who was' t as is the conscience of a saint Among his warring senses,... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...company, the dower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as lf he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King. To break the heathen and uphold the... | |
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