| 1793 - 806 trang
...alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia fwarms; Mouths without hands, injinuin'dat vafl expeoct, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout once a month they march, ablufteringbanJ, And ever, but in times of цгЫ, at hand; This was the morn \vhrn, irTuing on the... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 trang
...alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia fwarms; Mouths without hands, maintain'd at vad expence, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout once a month they march, a bludering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand; This was the morn when, ilTuing on the guard.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 trang
...peace a charge, in war a weak defence: i Stout I e fair ; I repare. J iiclin'd, "1 aflign'd ; > und. J Stout once a month they march, a bluft'ring band; And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; This was the morn "hen, ¡(filing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they ftood... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 trang
...alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia fwarms ; Mouths without hands ; maintained at vaft expence, es are with their beauty !od, Yet watch their time,...have foigot They were your midrefTcs, the world may need, at hand : This was the morn when ¡fining on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they flood... | |
| William Cobbett - 1802 - 756 trang
..." And raw in' fields the rude Militia svramu; ' Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense^ < In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; ' Stout, once a month, they march a blus'teringbud) ' And ever, but in lima ofntrd, at hand; ' Of seeming arms they make a short essay,... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 658 trang
...alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia fwarms ; Mouths without liands ; maintain'd at vail expence, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout once a month they march a bluft'ring band, And ever, bur in times of need, at hand : This was the morn when ¡(Tiling on the guard, Drawn up in rank and... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 346 trang
...And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; 440 Mouths without hands ; maintain'd at vast expence, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout once a month, they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; 449 This was the morn when, issuing on the... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 trang
...the militia of England, which were then drawn cut, Mouths without hands ; maintained at vast expence, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand : This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 500 trang
...which were then drawn out, VOL. XI. 2 G Mouths without hands ; maintained at vast expence, In pc ace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand : This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
| 1809 - 402 trang
...alarms, Anil raw in Gelds the rude militiaswarms; Mouths without Is. mi!*, uiaiutaiu'd at vast expence, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout once a month they march, a blust'ring band ; And mi, but in times of ueed, at hand ; Th is was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
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