 | 1800 - 318 pàgines
...little stream hard by, They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head VIII. With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1800 - 314 pàgines
...he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head VIII. With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far...wide, And many a childing mother then, And new-born infant died. But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory. 36 37 IX. They say it... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pàgines
...little stream hard by ; They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forc'd to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his...wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, 46 They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won, For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pàgines
...ground, And he was forc'd to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, K or had he where to rest hit head. With fire and sword the country round. Was wasted far and wide, And many a chiWing mother then, And new-born infant died. But things like that you know must be At every famous... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pàgines
...little stream hard by ; They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forc'd to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head. \Vith fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, 46'... | |
 | 1808 - 844 pàgines
...sword this country ronnd Was wasted far and wide, And many a childinp mother then, And new born infant died. But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory. They say it was a shocking tight After the field was won, For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun ; But thin^ys li... | |
 | 1808 - 436 pàgines
...little stream hard by, They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forced to fly i So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head. With fire and sword this country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, And new born infant died.... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1809 - 418 pàgines
...wounded, bleeding as he fled ; While the frequent drops betray, And track the wretch's faltering way. But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory. And then the shells that burst around ; The houses tumbling to the ground j . , . ' The frighted virgin's... | |
 | 1816 - 802 pàgines
...little stream hard by, . They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forc'd to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his...country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing-mother theo Aud new-born iufant died : But things like these you know mult be At every famous... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pàgines
...gridiron, and broiled over a fire. 12. 1762. — HRH PRINCE REGENT BORN. *13. 1704.— BATTLE OF BLENHEIM. With fire and sword, the country round Was wasted...wide, And many a childing mother then, And new-born infant died. But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory. They say it was a shocking... | |
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But everybody said," quoth he, "that 'twas a famous victory. My father lived at Blenheim then, yon little stream hard by; they burnt his dwelling to the ground, and he was forced to fly: so with his wife and child he fled, nor had he where to rest his... 
