 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 378 Seiten
...Admiral's fleet was destroyed in 1665. The night before the engagement he wrote the well known epistle " To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite, And first would have you understand How hard it is to write ; The Muses now and Neptune too, We must... | |
 | Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 Seiten
...Admiral's fleet was destroyed in 1665. The night before the engagement he wrote the well known epistle " To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite, And first would have you understand How hard it is to write ; The Muses now and Neptune too, We must... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 Seiten
...winds do blow. Mtirtyn Parker. Poet*. 242 TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW ON LAND. TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW ON LAND. To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write : The muses now, and Neptune, too, We must... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 Seiten
...I with thee will choose to live. JOHN MILTOS. "TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW ON LAND." SONG WRITTEN AT SEA. To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write : The Muses now, and Neptune too, We... | |
 | Janet Hardy - 1880 - 320 Seiten
...responded Mr. Jones, a dapper little midshipman, merrily breaking out into a stave of the old song : "'To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite : But first would have you understand How hard it is to write or think, The Muses now and Neptune,... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 Seiten
...the young fellow addressing them from betweendecks far off, one could read it even with tears : — To all you ladies now on land We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write. The Muses now and Neptune too We must... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 Seiten
...EARL OF DORSET. SONG. [Written at Sea in the first Dutch War, 1665, the Night before an Engagement.] To all you ladies now on land We men at sea indite, But first would have you understand How hard it is to write ; The Muses now, and Neptune too, We must... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 200 Seiten
...the best events. CLXI. WRITTEN AT SEA IN THE FIRST DUTCH WAR, 1665, THE NIGHT BEFORE AN ENGAGEMENT. To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand, How hard it is to write : The Muses now, and Neptune too, We... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1884 - 486 Seiten
...under the reign of James I., commemorated in the " Guardian," and the celebrated song beginning, " To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite," which was composed by Charles, Earl of Dorset, Lord George's grandfather, as we are assured, on the night... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1884 - 486 Seiten
...Bruce under the reign of James I., commemorated in the "Guardian," and the celebrated song beginning, " To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite," dam, under Charles II.'s reign,1 these two productions, which are as universally known as the language... | |
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To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write : The muses now, and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you. 
