 | Richard Johnson - Christian saints - 1824 - 516 pages
...Corinthian knight, named Agelastus, mounted on a horse m;lk-white, but that upon his shoulders and withers he was freckled with red stains, as when a few strawberries...denoting terror to his enemies; and on his shield was depenciled a hawk seized of a pigeon, yet hurting it not : the word was, " True glory the only prize."... | |
 | Richard Johnson - 1867 - 434 pages
...mounted on a milkwhite horse, but that upon his shoulders and withers he was freckled with red stams, as when a few strawberries are scattered into a dish...denoting terror to his enemies ; and on his shield was depenciled a hawk seized of a pigeon, yet hurting it not : the word was, " True glory the only prize."... | |
 | 1923 - 916 pages
...than one of these "newer" poets would rejoice in the image of the white horse speckled with red — "as when a few strawberries are scattered into a dish of cream" — if Sir Philip Sidney had not, unfortunately, hit upon it first! The truth is that poetic modernism... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - Drama - 1979 - 294 pages
...set upon a horse milk-white, but that upon his shoulders and withers he was freckled with red stain, as when a few strawberries are scattered into a dish of cream. He had caused his mane and tail to be dyed in carnation, his reins were vine branches, which engendering... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1879 - 948 pages
...Phalanthus already waiting for him upon a horse milk-white, but that upon his shoulders and withers he was freckled with red stains, as when a few strawberries are scattered into a dish of cream." 2 In the " Fairie Queene " it is again the wood strawberry we find : — One day, as they all three... | |
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Phalantus is armed and set upon a horse milk-white, but that upon his shoulders and withers he was freckled with red stain, as when a few strawberries are scattered into a dish of cream. 