 | Samuel Gosnell Green - 1883 - 240 pàgines
...was really a great enterprise was in the distich, rather Hibernian than Scottish in tone : " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade ! " The railroads, too, in some of the fairest and grandest scenes of Scotland, cannot... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1889 - 476 pàgines
...a jesting way, this grievance is obliquely noticed in the celebrated couplet — " Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade." The pleasant bull here committed conceals a most melancholy truth, and one of large... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1902 - 726 pàgines
...present moment are very much like those in the Highlands immortalised by the couplet : — If you'd seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade. The difference between an American and a European road may be inferred from the fact... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 376 pàgines
...a jesting way, this grievance is obliquely noticed in the celebrated couplet — ' Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade.' The pleasant bull here committed conceals a most melancholy truth, and one of large... | |
 | Henry Frith - 1895 - 406 pàgines
...energetic engineer. Pennant calls him "another Hannibal," who found his vray 1 " Oh ! had you only seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade." through rocks supposed to have been unconquerable. Whethe! these roads can be termed... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1896 - 470 pàgines
...a jesting way, this grievance is obliquely noticed in the celebrated couplet — " Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade." The pleasant bull here committed conceals a most melancholy truth, and one of large... | |
 | John Francis Meehan - 1906 - 364 pàgines
...said to have been composed by a Mr. Caulfield, who was employed in the business by the Marshal : — " Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade." General Wade left a fortune of above ^100,000. He left ,£500 for the erection of a... | |
 | William T. Kilgour - 1908 - 414 pàgines
...share of notoriety, and his memory is kept fresh by the catchy epigram, which runs : — " Had you seen these roads before they were made You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade," a couplet which a cynic once said must have been composed by a person who had a Highland... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 370 pàgines
...a jesting way, this grievance is obliquely noticed in the celebrated couplet — ' Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade.' The pleasant bull here committed conceals a most melancholy truth, and one of large... | |
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Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade. 
