 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 trang
...alarms, And raw in fields the rude Militia swarms : Mouths without hands maintained at vast expence, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. Stout once a month they march, a blust'ring band, And ever but in times of need at hand. This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 trang
...alarms, And raw in fields the rude Militia swarms : Mouths without hands maintained at vast expencc, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. Stout once a month they march, a blust'ring band, And ever but in times of need at hand. This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 590 trang
...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 time of need, at hand. This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 trang
...367. 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. Liae 400. Of seeming arms to make a short essay,... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - 1902 - 364 trang
...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 of need, at hand; This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 194 trang
...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 time of need, at hand. This was the morn when, issuing on the guard,... | |
 | Francis Vinton Greene - 1911 - 488 trang
...History of England, V, 54. Debate on the mutiny act ' " 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 time of need at hand." Popularity of the Militia In the American Colonies... | |
 | Francis Vinton Greene - 1911 - 472 trang
...of England, V, 54. Debate on the mutiny act. 1 " 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 time of need at hand." — DHTDEX, "Cymon and Iphigenia." 1775 Popularity... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 trang
...Soldiers. 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. 3242 Dryden : Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 40ft... | |
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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... 
