 | 1884 - 982 Seiten
...lying off the Flemish coast, which Locker has included in his admirable " Lyra Elegantiarum." He says : "To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite ; But first, would have you understand How hard it is to write. " For, tho' the muses should prove... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1889 - 222 Seiten
...and polished lines. I prefer Sackville's verses ' written at sea the night before an engagement ' : ' To all you ladies now on land We men at sea indite ' — They are all alike, the wits of Queen Anne ; and even Matt Prior, when he writes of ladies occasionally,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1890 - 332 Seiten
...written on the eve of the naval engagement between the Duke of York and Admiral Opdam, which begins — ' To all you ladies now on land We men at sea indite.' With a fine classical taste and a courageous spirit, he had in early days been guilty of as much iniquity... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 Seiten
...SackvilU, Earl of Dorset. LXXVL WRITTEN AT SEA, THE FIRST DUTCH WAR THE NfGHT 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... | |
 | Rolf Boldrewood - 1899 - 328 Seiten
...If you only knew how hard it is to write ! " " Oh, ho ! quoting from Lord Sandwich's lines : — ' To all you ladies now on land We men at sea indite, But first I'd have you understand How hard it is to write.' " "You are too clever altogether, Hubert,"... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 528 Seiten
...the great sea fight in 1665, in which Opdam, the Dutch admiral, was blown up with all his crew : " 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 524 Seiten
...the great sea fight in 1665, in which Opdam, the Dutch admiral, was blown up with all his crew : " 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 William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 524 Seiten
...anything of Rochester's, his Song written at Sea in the First Dutch War the Night before the Engagement: To all you ladies now on land We men at sea indite: But first would have you understand How bard it is to write. But each one of the eleven stanzas of... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1909 - 412 Seiten
...tempting to quote a verse or two from the ballad that caused " much mirth " to Pepys and his friends — " 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... | |
 | Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold - 1910 - 406 Seiten
...God's forgiveness, than taking part in such wicked courses again." Dorset was the author of the 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 : The Muses now, and Neptune, too, We... | |
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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. 
