10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARPET KNIGHT»
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A Glossary; Or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names and ...
Cotgrave translates mignon ale couchette, “a carpet knight, one that ever loves to
be in women's chambers.” See in Couchette. Randle Holmes thus describes
them: All such as have studied law, either civil or common, phisick, or any other
arts ...
Robert Nares, James-Orchard Halliwell, Thomas II Wright, 1859
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Pendragon, Or, the
Carpet Knight His Kalendar (1698)
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'osh, Pierce easiest, 1593For that the valiant will defend her tame, When carpet
squire: will hide their heads with shame anbenille's ngiesa Told, litti TCARPET-
TRADE. The behaviour of the carpet-knight, flatterv. Whllt should I sale, tiller? on.
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The British Bibliographer
A Carpet- Knight. ". Thou like the fox, the ape, the lyon art, Thy words are wounds,
thy tongue it selfe the dart, Thou, like the fox, dost tell the crow he'es white,. To
please his eare, and feed thine appetite: Thou art the ape of other men's affection
...
Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood, 1812
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The Dramatic Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Printed from ...
4 Carpet knight.] Carpet knights are frequently mentioned with great contempt by
our ancient writers. Hie learned Sir James Burrows gives the following account of
them: ' 1 here was an order of knighthood of the appellation of Kniua rs of the ...
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Colman, 1811
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The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever ...
[Mackay] carpet-knight A denomination given to men of peaceable professions,
who are raised to the dignity of knighthood. They take the appellation carpet
because they usually receive their honours from the king's hands in the court, ...
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The British Bibliographer
(GA ° The carpet knight appears to have been a term characteristically applied to
those who obtained their honours, with an “ unhacked rapier:" amidst the holiday
gifts of their sovereign, rather than bravely acquired in the field of battle, ...
Samuel-Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood, Thomas Tusser, 1812
tion, just sufferable, of the Olympian god—Jove playing carpet- knight.1 For the
young Sir Willoughby's family and his thoughtful admirers, it is not too much to
say that Mrs. Mountstuart's little word fetched an epoch of our history to colour the
...
George Meredith, Richard C. Stevenson, 2010
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Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881
NO. CARPET-KNIGHT. 4. MAJOR JONES CONTINUED his tour of inspection,
arriving next at Maltby's Company E, fifteen miles west of Brownwood, on June
28, 1874. After reviewing the company's activities,Jones determined that all was ...
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Annotations illustrative of the plays of Shakespeare
This is, I believe, the original of the contemptuous term a carpet knight, who was
naturally held in scorn by the men of war. Johnson. For a full elucidation of the
order of knighthood — vide Anstis's Observations. Carpet knights, in contempt ;
and ...
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