 | 1836 - 436 pages
...collegiate air ; and of them chiefly, those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back doth ride, Where now the studious Lawyers have their bowers...Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride — as Spenser describes evidently with a relish. I think he had Garden Court in his eye. The noble... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1843 - 168 pages
...the order of the Knights Templars. " Those bricky towers, The which on Themme's brode aged back do ride Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers ; There whilom wont the TEMPLER KNIGHTS to bide, Till they decayed thro' pride. " THE proud and powerful Knights Templars were... | |
 | Samuel Pegge - 1844 - 438 pages
...his authority to insert this verb in his Dictionary. f You will find it seriously used by Spenser : " Where now the studious Lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templer Knights abide." And again in Milton's Comus. On the other hand, it is ludicrously introduced... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pages
...the sake of the truth in them, speaks of "those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers...Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride." f The " studious lawyers," in their towers by the water side, present a quiet picture. Yet in those... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1849 - 472 pages
...poetical epithet, speaks of the Temple as " those liricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers....Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride." Lord Mansfield, the " dear Murray" of Pope, had chambers In the Temple, and the exact house is thus... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 pages
...military Order of the Knights Templars. Those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers...Knights to bide, 'Till they decayed through pride. SPENCER'S Prothalamion. This famous Order was first established in England by Hugo de Payens, in 1118,... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pages
...New Temple, in 1184. Spenser alludes to this London locality in his beautiful Prothalamion : — " those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged...Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride." At the downfall of the Templars, in 1313, the New Temple in Fleet-street was given by Edward II. to... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pages
...New Temple, in 1184. Spenser alludes to this London locality in hia beautiful Prothalamion : — " those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged...lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar Kuights to bide, Till they decayed through pride." At the downfall of the Templars, in 1313, tho New... | |
 | 1851 - 492 pages
...fortune, or life itself." THE TEMPLE. Ttiose bricky towers, The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers...Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride. — Spmser. The Temple is an irregular pile of buildings, so called from having been anciently the... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 390 pages
...New Temple, in 1184. Spenser alludes to this London locality in his beautiful Prothalamion : — " those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back doe ride, Where now the stndious lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed... | |
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Thames' broad, aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride... 
