 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 336 Seiten
...; Not them but theirs, made prisoners ere they fight, Despairing conquest, and depriv'd of flight. 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,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...Soldiers. Haw 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. Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia, 400. MILTON.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1868 - 352 Seiten
...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.* Waneiatetn), how the armies of the period... | |
 | John Dryden - 1868 - 576 Seiten
...raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; Mouths without hands ; maintain'd at vast expense, la pen.ce a charge, in war a weak defence : Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And «ver, but in times of need, at hand. This was the morn, when, issuing on the... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 Seiten
...-,,,7. 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. /,//«• ,)0o. Of seeming arms to make a... | |
 | Édouard Laboulaye - 1870 - 522 Seiten
...civil, comme en 1 . Dmlen, Ci/mon and Ip'iîgenia. Mouth without hands, maintained at vast eipense, « In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. Stout once a month they mardi, a blustering band, And ever, but in time oCneed at band. France il a été longtemps tout militaire,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1871 - 500 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Acrostics - 1871 - 312 Seiten
...reaped, And all this praise God gives thee.' " 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." 2. " He had lived for his love, for his country... | |
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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... 
