 | 1797 - 454 sivua
...arm the Seine. Iv. Full fifteen thousand lusty fellows With fire and sword the fort maintain; Each was a Hercules, you tell us, Yet out they march'd...like common men ; Cannons above and mines below Did deuth and tombs for foes contrive, Yet matters have been order'd so That most of us are still alive.... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1802 - 504 sivua
...lufty fellows With fire and fword the fort maintain ; Each was a Hercules, you tell us, • 35 Vet out they march'd like common men ; Cannons above and mines below Did death and tumbs for foes contrive, Yet matters have been order'd fo That i".i It of us are ftill alive. xa V.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 sivua
...the fort maintain : Each was a Hercules, yon tell us; Yet out they march'd, like common men. Cannon* above, and mines below, Did death and tombs for foes contrive : Yet matters have been ordcr'd so, That most of us are still alive. If Ntimur be compar'd to Troy; Then Britain's boys excell'd... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 466 sivua
...and arm the Seine. Full fifteen thousand lusty fellows, With fire and sword the fort maintain; Each was a Hercules, you tell us, Yet out they march'd...tombs for foes contrive; Yet matters have been order'd so, That most of us are still alive. If Namur be compar'd to Troy, Then Britain's boys excell'd the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 448 sivua
...death and tombs for foes contrive ; Yet matters have been order'd so, That most of us are still alive. If Namur be compar'd to Troy, Then Britain's boys excell'd the Greeks ; Their siege did ten long years employ ; We've done our business in ten weeks. What godhead does so fast advance... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 sivua
...fellows, With fire and sword the fort maintain ; Each was a Hercules, you tell us, Yet out they marched like common men. Cannons above, and mines below, Did...for foes contrive ; Yet matters have been order'd so, That most of us are still alive. If Namur be compared to Troy, Then Britain's boys excell'd the... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1858 - 506 sivua
...the fort maintain; i Two celebrated engineers. Each was a Hercules, you tell us, Yet out they marched like common men. Cannons above, and mines below, Did...and tombs for foes contrive ; Yet matters have been ordered so, That most of us are still alive. 5 If Namur be compared to Troy ; Then Britain's boys excelled... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1860 - 338 sivua
...and arm the Seine. Full fifteen thousand lusty fellows "With fire and sword the fort maintain ; Each was a Hercules, you tell us, Yet out they march'd...for foes contrive : Yet matters have been order'd so. That most of us are still alive. If Namur be compar'd to Troy ; Then Britain's boys excell'd the... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1866 - 350 sivua
...fellows With fire and sword the fort maintain ; Each was a Hercules, you tell us, Yet out they mareh'd like common men. Cannons above, and mines below, Did...for foes contrive : Yet matters have been order'd so, That most of us are still alive. 40 v. If Namur be compar'd to Troy ; Then Britain's boys excell'd... | |
 | 1881 - 456 sivua
...and arm the Seine. Full fifteen thousand lusty fellows With fire and sword the fort maintain ; Each was a Hercules, you tell us, Yet out they march'd...for foes contrive ; Yet matters have been order'd so, Namur, devant tes muraillcs, Jadis la Grece cut vingt ans, Sans fruit -veu les funerailles Des... | |
| |
Full fifteen thousand lusty fellows, With fire and sword the fort maintain; Each was a Hercules, you tell us, Yet out they march'd like common men. Cannons above, and mines below, Did death and tombs for foes contrive; Yet matters have been order'd so,... 
