 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...arms spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face ol Christendom. Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors...of the naked spectacles which corrupted the manners ol the Greeks, and banished from the stadium the virgins and matrons, the pompoua decoration of the... | |
 | William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - Abbeys - 1844 - 436 pages
...love, loyalty, and religion. For these, and many other reasons, impartial taste, as Gibbon observes, must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games...classic antiquity. Instead of the naked spectacles which cormpted the manners of the Greeks, the pompous decoration of the lists was crowned with the presence... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...structure of minerals in polarized light. TOURNAMENT, and JOUSTS. " Impartial taste," says Gibbon, " must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games...spectacles, which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, the pompous decoration of the lists was crowned with the presence of chaste and high-born beauty, from... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 872 pages
...arms spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors...taste must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic g&mes of classic antiquity. Instead of the naked spectacles which corrupted the manners of the Greeks,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 pages
...arms spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors...Gothic tournament to the Olympic games of classic antiquity.57 Instead of the naked spectacles which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, and banished... | |
 | Thomas Tayler - Dictionaries, Polyglot - 1856 - 592 pages
...face of Christendom. Abroad, in enterprise and pilgrimage; at home, in martial exercise, the Knights of every country were perpetually associated ; and...tournament to the Olympic games of classic antiquity. The lance was the proper and peculiar weapon of the Knight ; his horse was of a large and heavy breed... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1858 - 868 pages
...impartial taste must prefer space between, on which was written chirograph, through which the parchment was a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games of classic antiquity. Instead of the naked cui, and one pnrt given to each party. It was also anciently used for a fine : the manspectacles which... | |
 | Thomas Tayler - English language - 1866 - 618 pages
...face of Christendom. Abroad, in enterprise and pilgrimage ; at home, in martial exercise, the Knights of every country were perpetually associated ; and...tournament to the Olympic games of classic antiquity. The lance was the proper and peculiar weapon of the Knight ; his horse was of a large and heavy breed... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 884 pages
...asimilar colour aud generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad In enterprise and pIlgrimaKC, at home In martial exercise, the" warriors of every country were perpetually associate«! ; and impartial taste must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games of classic... | |
 | Elizabeth Peake - Emperors - 1874 - 600 pages
...weak and unfortunate Edward II. of England. TOURNAMENTS AND JOUSTS. " Impartial taste," says Gibbon, "must prefer a Gothic tournament to the Olympic games...spectacles which corrupted the manners of the Greeks, the pompous decoration of the lists was crowned with the presence of chaste and high-born beauty, from... | |
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The asperity of national prejudice was softened ; and the community of religion and arms spread a similar colour and generous emulation over the face of Christendom. Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage, at home in martial exercise, the warriors of every... 
