 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
 | 1892 - 732 pages
...Table Round,' it is to ' Serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. , To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride...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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1893 - 138 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... | |
 | Harold Littledale - Arthurian romances - 1893 - 378 pages
...artistically as well, by introducing the ideal of chivalry that Arthur set before his knights :< — " To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their Kin<,', To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - Arthurian romances - 1894 - 464 pages
...Among his warring senses, to thy knights."2 And to acknowledge this sway is prime article in the vows of the Round Table ; — " I made them lay their hands...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,... | |
 | David James Vaughan - Great Britain - 1894 - 284 pages
...plans, the original intention of the famous Round Table, — and how her infidelity had ruined all. ' I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence...conscience, and their conscience as their King, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To lead sweet lives... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 348 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 king, as if lie were Their conscience, and their conscience as their king, To break the heathen... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Arthurian romances - 1894 - 72 pages
...they could only partly understand. A picture of this life and its duttes is given in Guinevere ; " I made them lay their hands in mine and swear, To reverence trie King as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1895 - 112 pages
...of my Table Round, 460 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, 470 To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 184 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,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1895 - 944 pages
...all events we might place before us a true standard of what they might aim at when they reverenced their conscience as their king : " To break the heathen...wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it; To honour his own word as if his God's, To live sweet lives in purest chastity ; To love one maiden only,... | |
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