 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1895 - 112 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...Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, 1 To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1895 - 156 pages
...by, yet the which No man can keep. " Cf., in Guinevere (463-479), the well-known passage beginning "I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To...Their conscience, and their conscience as their king." In The Last Tournament (693, 694), Tristram calls the vows " inviolable vows, Which flesh and blood... | |
 | Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 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 the King, as if he were To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To... | |
 | English periodicals - 1895 - 928 pages
...nobler spirit of Christian purpose, seems wanting—and if the great objects of the Table Round — To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human 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... | |
 | Henry Edward Watts - Authors, Spanish - 1895 - 322 pages
...duties to which the knight was vowed were such as included all the noblest virtues of the age : — To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride...abroad redressing human wrongs, • ••••• To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds. What if the faith was... | |
 | Henry Edward Watts - Authors, Spanish - 1895 - 320 pages
...duties to which the knight was vowed were such as included all the noblest virtues of the age : — To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds. What if the faith was... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1895 - 344 pages
...but is tender and merciful. Zeal against the sin is conjunct with love and pity to the sinner. 22. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence their conscience as their king, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, 23. To speak no slander, no,... | |
 | 1905 - 1006 pages
...woman's heart yearns for something warmer, more human, to inwrap it. Was Arthur's ideal of knighthood— To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only,... | |
 | Student publications - 1914 - 666 pages
...they must bow to the great lessons taught by this perhaps too perfect man. Arthur bound his knights : "To reverence the king, as if he were Their conscience,...wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only,... | |
 | 1913 - 890 pages
...flowers. ing worthily to inspire the Christian chivalry of Arthur, singing for the knights who swore To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride...To speak no slander, no nor listen to it, To lead sweetest lives in purest chastity.* Comparing him with the other eminent English Catholic poets of... | |
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