 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1802 - 756 pages
...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 pages
...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 cowards would have fled, but that they knew Themselves so many, and their foes so few : 4'50 But, crowding... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...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 - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...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 in a dungeon was the captive cast, Depriv'd of day, and held in fetters fast: His life was only... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...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.' from the payment of personal taxes, they are altogether privileged. The free... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they inarch, 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 ; Hut, crowding... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...hand ; This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prcpar'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 knew Themselves so many, and their foes so few: But, crowding... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio, John Dryden - English poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...in times of need, at hand. This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and tile they stood prepared Of seeming arms to make a short...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... | |
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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,... 
