 | English poetry - 1800 - 318 pages
...fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, 36 37 IX. They say it was a shocking sight After the field was...our good Prince Eugene. — Why 'twas a very wicked tiiing I Said little Wilhelmine. Nay — nay — my little girl, quoth he, It was a famous victory.... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1800 - 314 pages
...sword the country round Was wasted far and 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 was a shocking sight After the field was won, For many thousand bodies here Lay... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poetry - 1805 - 224 pages
...\Vith fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, 46' They say it was a shocking sight After the field was...And our good Prince Eugene. Why 'twas a very wicked tiling ! Said little Wilhelmine. Nay . . nay . . my little girl, quoth he. It was a famous victory.... | |
 | 1817 - 628 pages
...what cloak they please ; it is certain, that They say it was a shocking sight, After the field WHS won ; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in...Eugene ; " Why 'twas a very wicked thing !" Said little Wilhelmine. " Nay, nay-— my little girl,'' quoth he, " It was a famous victory." And every body praised... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...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...For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun ; tut things like that you know most be After a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won,... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - Conduct of life - 1806 - 362 pages
...; But things like that, you know, muft be After a famous victory. Great praife the Duke of Madbro' won> And our good Prince Eugene.— Why, 'twas a very wicked thing ! ' ' .• Said little Wilhelmine. Nay — nay — my little girl, quoth he, . It was a famous victory. And every body prais'd... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 436 pages
...sword this country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, And new born infant died. But things like that, you know, must be At every...For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun i But things like that you know must be After a famous victory. 237 Great praise the duke of Marlbro'... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 844 pages
...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... | |
 | George Beaumont - War - 1808 - 218 pages
...bodies here " But things like that you know, mtift be t .'. " After a FAMOUS VICTORY. " Great praife the Duke of Marlbro' won, " And our good Prince Eugene."— " Why 'twas a very wicked thing!" Said little Wilhclmine. " Nay, nay, my little girl, quoth he, - *., " It was a FAMOUS VICTORY ; " And every body... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1809 - 418 pages
...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... | |
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They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won ; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun : But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. 'Great praise the Duke of Marlbro* won And our good Prince Eugene... 
