 | Jennings Cropper Wise - 1915 - 378 trang
...Dryden: 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. CHAPTER VI THE WASHINGTONIAN DOCTRINE THE best... | |
 | Jennings Cropper Wise - 1917 - 164 trang
...: 55 "And now 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." In these lines Dryden but voiced the later... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 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 Stearns Eliot - 1924 - 52 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 blust'ring band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; This was the morn, when issuing on the guard,... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 trang
...And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; 400 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,... | |
 | 1907 - 1052 trang
...REFORMS 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. ])ryden, Cymon and Iphigenia. Extract from... | |
 | Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert - 1986 - 964 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. At the end of the seventeenth century, Macaulay... | |
 | Robert J. Cottrol - 1994 - 484 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. 23. Test Act. 25 Car. 2. c. 2. fl673l; Parliamentary... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 1997 - 146 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 hlust'ring hand, And ever, hut in rimes of need, at hand; This was the morn, when issuing on the guard,... | |
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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... 
