 | 1820 - 590 páginas
...the beginning of his career, .directed t'ho point of his Ir.noe towards HoisGuilbcrt's shield, hut, changing his aim almost in the moment of encounter, he addressed it to the helmet, a mark nvorc difficult to hit, but which, if attained, .rendered the shock more irresistible. Yet, even at... | |
 | david william - 1820 - 564 páginas
...champion had, in the beginning of his career, directed the point of his lance towards Bois-Ouilbert's shield, but, changing his aim almost in the moment...if attained, rendered the shock more irresistible. Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation ; and had not the girths... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 356 páginas
...champion had, in the beginning of his career, directed the point of his lance towards Bois-Guilberfs shield, but, changing his aim almost in the moment...if attained, rendered the shock more irresistible. Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation ; and had not the girths... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 páginas
...other hand, that champion had, in the beginning of his career, directed the point of his lance towards Bois-Guilbert's shield, but, changing his aim almost...if attained, rendered the shock more irresistible. Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation; and had not the girths of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 304 páginas
...point of his lance towards Bois-Guilbert's shield, but, changing his aim almost in the moment of the encounter, he addressed it to the helmet, a mark more...if attained, rendered the shock more irresistible. Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation; and had not the girts of... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 páginas
...other hand, that champion had, in the beginning of his career, directed the point of his lance towards Bois-Guilbert's shield, but changing his aim almost...hit, but which, if attained, rendered the shock more irresistable. Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation ; and, had... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 852 páginas
...other hand, that champion had, in the beginning of his career, directed the point of his lance towards Bois-Guilbert's shield, but, changing his aim almost...lance's point kept hold of the bars. Yet, even at ihis disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation ; and had not the girths of his saddle... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...other hand, that champion had, in the beginning of his career, directed the point of his lance towards Bois-Guilbert's shield, but, changing his aim almost...if attained, rendered the shock more irresistible. Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templap sustained his high reputation ; and had not the girths... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 páginas
...dangerous critic that the Waverleys ever encountered, for, like Ivanhoe in the lists at Ashby, he aimed at the helmet, — ' a mark more difficult to hit, but...if attained, rendered the shock more irresistible.' Had Hazlitt hit the mark, Sir Walter would certainly have been unhorsed ; but he, too, missed his aim,... | |
 | 1895 - 844 páginas
...dangerous critic that the Waverleys ever encountered, for, like Ivanhoe in the lists at Ashby, he aimed at the helmet, — "a mark more difficult to hit, but...if attained, rendered the shock more irresistible." Had Hazlitt hit the mark, Sir Walter would certainly have been unhorsed ; but he, too, missed his aim,... | |
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Templar aimed at the centre of his antagonist's shield, and struck it so fair and forcibly that his spear went to shivers, and the Disinherited Knight reeled in his saddle. On the other hand, that champion had, in the beginning of his career, directed... 
