 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 4831884Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. Act i. Sc. 8. And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous 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... | |
 | 1866 - 978 páginas
...sovereign's!; thing on earth Was parmeciti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pi'y, so it was, That villanous 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 gun», He woulil... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1866 - 478 páginas
...unjoiuted chat already quoted from the popinjay who said : — "It was in sooth great pity, so it was, This 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... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 páginas
...sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti 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 had destroyed So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 páginas
...sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That 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... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 páginas
...earth Was parmaceti 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 So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 454 páginas
...hand to hand, might exclaim with our great bard : — " 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." A modern battle-field is a most terrible... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 páginas
...sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity (so it was) This 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... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 páginas
...corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility. Act \. Sc. 3. And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous 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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1888 - 668 páginas
...description of the regular military officer saying : " It was great pity, so it was, that villainous saltpetre should be digged out of the bowels of the harmless earth, which many a tall fellow had destroyed so cowardly ; but for these vile guns," &c., is true to this... | |
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