 The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times...  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Página 3321855Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 páginas
...around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths without hands; maintain'd at vast expense ; In peace a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout once a month they march, a hlustering hand, And ever, hut in times of need, at hand ; This was the mom, when, issuing on the guard,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the mile militia swarms; Mouths without hands ; maintain'd thoughts eiplain'd : " pass'd. DRYDEN. Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 páginas
...around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands ; maintain'd h Their aery caravan, hi DRYDEN. Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 662 páginas
...them off a little sharply, — but then John was a Jacobite, — ' Mouths without hands, maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a-month, they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in time of need, at hand.' I fancy they halted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 550 páginas
...them off a little sharply, — but then John was a Jacobite, — 'Mouths without hands, maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a-monih, they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in time of need , at hand.' I fancy they halted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 526 páginas
...them off a little sharply, — but then John was a Jacobite, — 'Mouths without hands, maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge , in war a weak defence ; Slout once a-month, they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in time of need , at hand.' I fancy... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 550 páginas
...sycophants of James the Second : — "The country rings around with loud alarms. And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths without hands, maintained...Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, : - s.. . And ever, but in time of need, at hand. This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, . .."v:i... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 páginas
...sycophants of J times the Second : . •'' The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; • , Mouths without hands,...at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defense. Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in time of need, at hand.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 páginas
...sycophants of James the Second : -'- The country rings around with lond alarms, And raw in fields the rnde militia swarms ; Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defense. Stout once a month they march, a blustering band. And ever, but in time of need, at hand.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1850 - 660 páginas
...force, they would not | forget what old John Dryden said of such a band, in his day, that they were " maintained at vast expense ; In peace a charge — in war a weak defence. Stout, once a year, they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in time of need, at hand." It might bo said, hoirercr,... | |
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