 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...  The Works of Lord Macaulay - Sivu 300tekijä(t) Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 17 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Cobbett - 1802 - 756 sivua
...month, they march a blus'teringbud) ' And ever, but in lima ofntrd, at hand; ' Of seeming arms they make a short essay, " Then hasten to be drunk — the business of the diy.*8 It is strange, too, that those person^ who are alarmed for their li&ertits when l standing army... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 346 sivua
...: 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 guard, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepar'd Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 sivua
...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...Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. The cowards would have fled, but that they knew Themselves so many, and their foes so few ; But, crowding... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 sivua
...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...Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. The cowards would have fled, but that they knew Themselves so many, and their foes so few ; But, crowding... | |
 | 1809 - 402 sivua
...: 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, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepar'd Of teeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be druuk, the business of the day. The... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 sivua
...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, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepar'd Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. The... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 sivua
...hand ; , This was the morn when, issuing dn the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepar'd Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. The cowards would have fled, but that they kuev Themselves so many, and their foes so few : But, crowding... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 sivua
...defence : Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand j This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepar'd Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. The... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 sivua
...defence : Stout once a month they march, a blustering baud. And ever, but in times of need, at hand j This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepar'd Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. Deep... | |
 | 1819 - 552 sivua
...a weak defence; Stout, once a month, they inarch a blust'ring band, And ever, but in time of Deed, at hand; This was the morn when issuing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file, they stood prepar'd Of seeminj,' arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be. drunk, the busftieis of the day.'... | |
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