 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
 | 1870 - 574 páginas
...indeed, but for all time, when you declared that " It was great pity — so it was — That villainous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly." We are told that Wellington wept at the horrid... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 páginas
...Was spermaceti, for an inward bruise ;' And that ' it was a great pity—so it was— This villainous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good, tall fellow had destroyed He would himself have been a soldier ! So cowardly ;'... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...sovereign's! thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That icket 's off duty forever. MRS. HOWLAND. CIVIL WAR. " RIFLEMAN, shoot me a fa Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 152 páginas
...earth Was parmaceti 2 for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow 3 had destroyed So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 530 páginas
...the impregnable steel-encased warrior now thought — " That it was a great pity, and so it was, this villanous saltpetre should be digged " Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, which many a good fellow had destroyed so cowardly." Now, the merest churl could, with a vile gun,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 538 páginas
...the impregnable steel-encased warrior now thought — " That it was a great pity, and so it was, this villanous saltpetre should be digged " Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, which many a good fellow had destroyed so cowardly." Now, the merest churl could, with a vile gun,... | |
 | 1872 - 514 páginas
...spermaceti — for an inward bruise : And that it was great pity — so it was — That villainous 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... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 páginas
...on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous 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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1873 - 256 páginas
...on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villainous 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1873 - 348 páginas
..."Was spermaceti — for an inward bruise; And that it was a great pity (so it was) That villainous saltpetre — should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, "Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself... | |
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