 | Gordon Stables - 1928 - 336 pàgines
...his presence of mind. CHAPTER XI The Attack on the Hacienda. — Determined Resistance " And dar'st thou then to beard the lion in his den The Douglas in his hall? And thinkest thou, thence unscathed to go ? No, by St. Bride of Bothwell, no ! " — Scott. THE scout would... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1875 - 378 pàgines
...headquarters at once. He sued the Bishop himself. He showed at all events that he had the courage " To beard the lion in his den, the Douglas in his hall." That action was for the slander, of which Father O'Keeffe charged the Bishop as being the author and... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 pàgines
...saidst I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied ! ' On the earl's cheek the flush of rage...the ashen hue of age ; Fierce he broke forth : ' And dar'st thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? And hop'st thou hence unscathed... | |
 | Joseph A. Kotarba, Andrea Fontana - 1987 - 256 pàgines
...Douglas writes that from his earliest days his mother drummed into his ears Sir Walter Scott's lines: "And darest thou, then / To beard the lion in his den, / The Douglas in his hall." She was convinced that through the Douglas blood "we had acquired an indomitable will and capacity... | |
 | L. M. Montgomery - 1997 - 522 pàgines
...body of this stray woman-child of whom shy Matthew Cuthbert was so ludicrously afraid.6 4. "And dar st thou, then, / To beard the lion in his den, / The Douglas in his hall?" (Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field [1808], "The Battle," Canto 6, 11. 22—25). Marmion,... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 468 pàgines
...to Marmion, after Marmion has dared to speak his mind to the Earl in the Earl's own hold: And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, the Douglas in his hall? (Walter Scott, Marmion, VI.xiv.23-5) 49. an extremely pure and romantic feeling. 1913 CM removes 'pure... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2001 - 1166 pàgines
...subject he has made his hobby, or on his own promisee ; to defy personally or face to face. Dar*Bt tliou, then, To beard the lion In his den. The Douglas In his lull t ScM : tftrmto*, vi. 14. To make one's beard. To have one wholly at your mercy, as a barber has... | |
 | 2003 - 1282 pàgines
...In his den, to defy a person in his home, office, or other usual place of work or living: And dar'st thou then to beard the lion in his den, the Douglas in his hall? (Scott), put one's head in the lion's mouth. See under head. throw (or feed) to the lions, to cast... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 258 pàgines
...the Earl's cheek the flush of rage O'er came the ashen hue of age: Fierce he broke forth, 'And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go No, by Saint Bride of Bothwell, no! Up drawbridge, grooms - what,... | |
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I tell thee thou'rt defied! And if thou saidst I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied! 
