| Robert Burns - 1881 - 326 Seiten
...Moro low was laid at the sound of the drum. I lastly was with Curtis, among the floating batt'ries, And there I left for witness an arm and a limb; Yet let my country need me, with Elliot to head me, I 'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of a drum. And now though I must beg, with... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1881 - 426 Seiten
...Moro low was laid at the sound of the drum. I lastly was with Curtis, among the floating batteries, And there I left for witness an arm and a limb ; Yet let my country need me, with Elliot to head me, I'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of a drum. That belongs to the perennial in... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1881 - 428 Seiten
...batteries, And there I left for witness an arm and a limb ; Yet let my country need me, with Elliot to head me, I'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of a drum. That belongs to the perennial in poetry. Out of the dingy atmosphere of a tavern revel the old soldier... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1883 - 576 Seiten
...thinking of the lines given by Burns to his heroic beggar — " Yet let my country need me, with Eliott to head me, I'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of the drum " — lines that may have been written while Reynolds was painting the picture.'— Leslie... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 458 Seiten
...Superfluous nu?ss Whiskey. JO Fürt at Havana. I lastly was with Curtis, Among the floating batt'ries, And there I left for witness An arm and a limb ; Yet let my country need me, With Elliot to head me, I'd clatter on my stumps At the sound of a drum. Lai de daudle, &c. And now tho'... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 460 Seiten
...Trumping. ' Sweetheart. • Mouth. I lastly was with Curtis, Among the floating batt'ries, And tlicre I left for witness An arm and a limb ; Yet let my country need me, With Elliot to head me, I'd clatter on my stumps At the sound of a .drum. Lai de daudle,. &c. And now tho'... | |
| Robert Burns - 1885 - 310 Seiten
...Moro 3 low was laid at the sound of the drum. I lastly was with Curtis among the floating batt'ries,4 And there I left for witness an arm and a limb ; Yet let my country need me, with Elliot5 to head me, I'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of a drum. * a travelling hawker, whose wares... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 Seiten
...oatt'riei, And there I left for witness an arm and a limb ; Yet let my country need me, with Elliot to head me, I'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of a drain. ... * He ended ; and the kebars sheuk, A boon the chorus roar ; While frighted nit tons backward... | |
| Robert Burns - 1885 - 364 Seiten
...low was laid at the sound of the drum. Lai de daudle, etc. Yet let my country need me, with Elliot to head me, I'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of the drum. Lai de daudle, etc. And now though I must beg with a wooden arm and leg, And many a tattered... | |
| Robert Burns - 1887 - 400 Seiten
...daudle, etc. I lastly was with Curtis, among the floating batt'ries, And there I left for witnesses an arm and a limb : Yet let my country need me, with Elliot to head me, I'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of the drum. Lai de daudle, etc. And now,... | |
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