 | 1800 - 318 pagina’s
...Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by, They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head VIII. With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 614 pagina’s
...Blenheim then, Yon little ftream hard by, They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to reft his head. ' With fire and fword the country round Was wafted far and wide, And many a childing... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pagina’s
...then, Yon little stream hard by ; They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forc'd to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where...wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, 46 They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won, For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pagina’s
...ground, And he was forc'd to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, K or had he where to rest hit head. With fire and sword the country round. Was wasted far and wide, And many a chiWing mother then, And new-born infant died. But things like that you know must be At every famous... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pagina’s
...then, Yon little stream hard by ; They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forc'd to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head. \Vith fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, 46'... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 pagina’s
...then, Yon little ftream hard by, i. They burnt his dwelling to the ground^ And he was forc'd to fly : So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to reft his head. With fire and fword the country round Was wafted far and wide. And many a childing mother... | |
 | 1806 - 360 pagina’s
...They burnt his dwelling to the ground, My father lir'd at Blenheim then, And he was forc'd to fly: So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to reft his head. With fire and fword the country round Was wafted far and wideAnd many a childing mother... | |
 | 1808 - 436 pagina’s
...Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by, They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forced to fly i So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head. With fire and sword this country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then, And new born infant died.... | |
 | 1808 - 844 pagina’s
...little stream ha;'d by, They burnt his dwelling to the ground And he was forced to fly : So with '.its wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head. With fire and sword this country ronnd Was wasted far and wide, And many a childinp mother then, And new born infant died.... | |
 | George Beaumont - 1808 - 218 pagina’s
...Yon little ftreams hard by ; " They burnt his dwelhng to the ground, " And he was forc'd to fly ; " So with his wife and child he fled, " Nor had he where to reft his head : " With fire and fword the country round• •' Was wafted far and wide ; " And many... | |
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But everybody said," quoth he, "that 'twas a famous victory. My father lived at Blenheim then, yon little stream hard by; they burnt his dwelling to the ground, and he was forced to fly: so with his wife and child he fled, nor had he where to rest his... 
