 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 516 pages
...military Order of the KnightsTemplars. " Those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers...Templar Knights to bide, 'Till they decayed through pride."—SPENCER'S Prothalamion. The famous Order of the Knights Templars was first established in... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1873 - 398 pages
...the New Temple, in 1184. Spenser alludes to this London locality in his beautiful Prothalamion:— The which on Thames' broad aged back doe ride, Where...Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride," " those hrlcky towers At the downfall of the Templars, in 1313, the New Temple in Fleet-street was... | |
 | Howard Paul, John Timbs, Percy Fitzgerald - 1873 - 456 pages
...the character of the buildings, is thus alluded to by Spenser, in his beautiful Protlialamion .— " Those bricky towers, The which on Thames' broad aged...their bowers. There whilom wont the Templar Knights to hide, Till they decayed through pride ;" and old Fuller remarks, that here the professors of the law... | |
 | John Timbs - 1873 - 170 pages
...of the buildings, is thus alluded to by Spenser, in his beautiful Prothalamion : — " Those hricky towers, The which on Thames' broad aged back doe ride,...their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar Knights to hide, Till they decayed through pride ;" and old Fuller remarks, that here the professors of the law... | |
 | Alexander Wood - 1874 - 412 pages
...become of the parliament.' THE STRAND. ' Those bricky towers The which on Thames' broad aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers,...whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decay'd through pride; Next whereunto there stands a stately place.' THE Blackfriars' Monastery* was... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pages
...CONTINUED. A LOOKER-BACK.1 III. THE TEMPLE. " 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 Templar Knights to bide." •. '-PERHAPS there is no place in "^£bndon that appeals to so many . instincts of the soul as the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 134 pages
...•weile.' Cp. "Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused." — MILTON. And in the dative plural — " Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar knights abide." — SPENSER. So " Will you troll the catch you taught me but wkile-ere" (iii. 2, 127); ie 'a... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 528 pages
...Street, yet utterly removed from it, are the groups of ancient buildings described by Spenser : — " — those bricky towers, The which on Thames' broad aged...studious lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Temple knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride." The earliest residence of the Knights Templar... | |
 | James Kirby - 1878 - 658 pages
...-"Those bricky towers The which on Themmes brode aged back doe ride, Where now the Btudious lawyers hare their bowers ; There whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide. Till they decayed through pride." Standing to-day in the gardens of the Temple the eye takes in the Thames and its bridges, and stretches... | |
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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... 
