 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 trang
...367. 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 of need, at hand. Line 400. Of seeming arms to make a short... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 trang
...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 blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand. DRYDEN : Cymon and Iphigenia. The brave abroad... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 312 trang
...Scotland's war. 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 of need, at hand. XVH. Adverbs: §§380-3. The ordinary constructions... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 604 trang
...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 just now, taking us, as... | |
 | 1877 - 534 trang
...in importance and efficiency, and no doubt justified Dryden's well-known lines on the Militia: — " 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.' A further Act of 12th Charles II. c. 29,... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 300 trang
...Scotland's war. Eaw 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 mouth they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand. XVII. Adverbs: §§380-3.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 trang
...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 blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand. DRYDEN : Cymon and Iphigenia. The brave abroad... | |
 | Charles C. Jones, Jr - 1878 - 350 trang
...it : And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths witbout bands, maintain'd at vast expence, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout, once a year, they march a blust'ring band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; Of seeming arms, they... | |
 | Sir James Sibbald David Scott - 1880 - 670 trang
...hours might bring to the coasts of Kent or Sussex, were forced to acknowledge that, k (') So Dryden : " 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 baud," Cymon and Iphigenia. dangerous as it might... | |
 | James Sibbald David Scott - 1880 - 652 trang
...bring to the coasts of Kent or Sussex, were forced to acknowledge that, . (v) So Dryden : " In jieace 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." Cymon and Ipliigenia. dangerous as it might... | |
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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... 
