| 1838 - Страниц: 358
...did huntsmen, horses, and hounds, enter the .field in such splendid condition as the Marquis's : " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array :" and the work they have done, and the manner in which they have done it, justify the predictions... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - Страниц: 454
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ' To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. *e Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - Страниц: 468
...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bonne for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! : XVI. " Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - Страниц: 284
...war, That up the lake comes winding far! 6 To hero boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-arm'd archers far and near Survey*d the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1830 - Страниц: 902
...to construct our heroic age, and such a case as the Alliance, presents a part of the material. Til K FEDERAL PROCESSION. . " 'Twere worth ten years of...Constitution, and it was appointed on Friday, the fuurth of July, for the double purpose of commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the fourth... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - Страниц: 342
...I am the Alexander of the Nile.' I say of these fountains, what Scott says of a martial company, ' 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Besides, do you hold as nothing his own consciousness of right?" " Why, sir," replied Mr. Brande, "... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - Страниц: 348
...I am the Alexander of the Nile.' I say of these fountains, what Scott says of a martial company, ' "Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' Besides, do you hold as nothing his own consciousness of right?" " Why, sir," replied Mr. Brande, "... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1833 - Страниц: 350
...and to yield to pastime and pleasure, what we could by no means constrain by any force of our arms. THE FEDERAL PROCESSION. " 'Twere worth ten years of...Declaration of Independence of the fourth of July, 1 776. Although we have had several processions since, none have ever equalled it in the pomp and expense... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1833 - Страниц: 336
...and to yield to pastime and pleasure, what we could by no means constrain by any force of our arms. THE FEDERAL PROCESSION. " 'Twere worth ten years of...Declaration of Independence of the fourth of July, 1 776. Although we have had several processions since, none have ever equalled it in the pomp and expense... | |
| Mortimer O'Sullivan - 1836 - Страниц: 262
...Britain from such a custody ? (L) A great poet has said, speaking of a grand military spectacle — " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array." I can now fully understand the expression, and say, that had my H 2 life from infancy to the present... | |
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