 And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 4151884Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1811 - 450 páginas
...ear, he's a tvger in his fierce resentment.' But for me, ' I think 'ta pity, so it is, that villainous saltpetre should be digged out of the bowels of the harmless earth, which many a good tall fellow has destroyed, with wounds, and guns, and drums, heaven save the mark... | |
 | 1818 - 594 páginas
...Philadelphia. Like the certain Lord in Shakspeare, he thought That it was great pity, so it was That villanous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly. 'III. Franklin's name stands deservedly high... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1828 - 346 páginas
...not so to me, What care I how fair she be ? GEORGE WITHERS. - It was a great pity, so it was, That villanous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed. First Part of King Henry IV. SEVERAL days passed. I had... | |
 | Nature - 1829 - 178 páginas
...gunpowder. Hence the following lines from Shakspeare : — " It was great pity, so it was, That v illauous Saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly." The Chinese are said to use two-thirds of... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 páginas
...sovereign's! thing on earth Was spermaceti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow has destroyed So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 páginas
...sovereign'st thing on earth Was spermaceti, for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, \ Which many a good, tall fellow has destroyed So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 páginas
...thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; * And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good, tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...earth Was spermaceti, for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villainous salt-petre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly : and but for these vile guns, He would himself... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 572 páginas
...bruise; 1 And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good, tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 páginas
...thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; ' And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good, tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself... | |
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