 | Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters - England - 1889 - 76 pages
...forfeited three manors for striking the Black Prince with his racket when they quarrelled at tennis. " Tring, Wing and Ivanhoe, For striking of a blow, Hampden did forego, And glad he could escape so." Unfortunately neither of these manors ever belonged to a Hampden. (See Notes and Queries, 3rd S., vp... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 422 pages
...Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis, — "Tring, Wing, and Iranhoe, For striking of a blow, Hampden did forego, And glad he could escape so." The word suited the author's purpose in two material respects, — for, first, it had an ancient English... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1899 - 504 pages
...English sound, and a happy quality of giving no inkling of the nature of the story. The rhymes ran, — "Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe For striking of a blow Hampden did forego, And glad he could escape so." The elements of interest in the story are many, and chosen with the artistic grace that so characterized... | |
 | Walter Scott - Anglo-Saxons - 1900 - 606 pages
...by the ancestor of John Hampden to the Black Prince when they quarrelled at a game of tennis : — " Tring Wing and Ivanhoe For striking of a blow Hampden did forego And glad to escape so." He liked the word " Ivanhoe " as a title for two reasons : " it had an ancient English... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Buckinghamshire (England) - 1901 - 250 pages
...given rise to the following rhyme (referred to in Sir Walter Scott's romance of " Ivanhoe ") : — " Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe, For striking of a blow, Hampden did forego, And glad he did escape so." Queen Elizabeth, during one of her pilgrimages, was entertained at Hampden by Griffith... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - Proverbs - 1902 - 546 pages
...Buzzard is hard by. — N., I., v. 619. ie in the adjoining co. Bedfordsh. Tring, Wing, and Ivinghoe, for striking of a blow Hampden did forego and glad he could escape so. — N., III., v. 176. or Hampden of Hampden did forego the manors of Tring, Wing, and Ivinghoe for... | |
 | Buckinghamshire (England) - 1903 - 690 pages
...celebrated Hampden, for striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis: Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe, For striking- of a blow Hampden did forego, And glad he could escape so. The word suited the Author's purpose in two material respects, for, first, it had an ancient English... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1897 - 596 pages
...Hampden, for striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis ; — " Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe, For striking of a blow, Hampden did forego, And glad he coul'l escape so." The word suited the author's purpose in two material respects,— for, first, it... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1923 - 582 pages
...Hampden, for striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis; — Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe, For striking of a blow. Hampden did forego. And glad he could escape to. The word suited the author's purpose in two material respects, — for, first, it had an ancient... | |
 | Judith Wilt - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 242 pages
...manors forfeited by the ancestor of the celebrated Hampden, for striking the Black Prince a blow. . . . Tring, Wing; and Ivanhoe, For striking of a blow, Hampden did forego, And glad he could escape so. (Ivanhoe, pp. xvii, xvi) The conceit that these men, these words, these book titles, are originless... | |
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On such an occasion the author chanced to call to memory a rhyme recording three names of the manors forfeited by the ancestor of the celebrated Hampden, for striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis: "Tring, Wing,... 
