 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 sider
...When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's...Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. MACAULAY. Wanderer's Nachtlied. Gentle Peace, whose wand of power Lulls to slumber woe and pain, In... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 sider
...When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's...Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.' — pp. 74-76. The 'Battle of the Lake Rcgillus,' which Niebuhr has pronounced to be a grand epopee,... | |
 | 1842 - 416 sider
...When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's...Horatius kept the bridge, In the brave days of old." We have analyzed the ballad of " Horatius " with considerable minuteness, and have made many extracts... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 sider
...the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows; 70. When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmet's plume; When the goodwife's...Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. (1) " Our ladye bare upp her chinne." Ballad of CMlde Waters. "Never heavier man and horse Stemmed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 142 sider
...the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows; 70. When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmet's plume; When the goodwife's...Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. (1) " Our ladye bare upp her chinne." Ballad of Childe Waters. "Never heavier man and horse Stemmed... | |
 | 1843 - 648 sider
...the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows 1 " When the goodman mends his armour. And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's...Horatius kept the Bridge In the brave days of old." ' The Battle of the Lake Regillus,' in which the gods openly take part, is conjectured by Niebuhr to... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 552 sider
...70 "When the goodman mends his armor, And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's housewife merrily Goes flashing through the loom; With weeping...Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old." The passages marked in italics we should like to see amended ; they appeared to us to be constructed... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 sider
...circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; When the goodman mends his armor And trims his helmet's plume ; When the good wife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with laughter Still is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 sider
...weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; When the goodman mends his armor And trims his heUnet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With wreping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the biave days... | |
 | Henry Wood (Yorkshire journalist.), Henry Wood (Yorkshire journalist) - 1843 - 154 sider
...Chase." In Mr. Macaulay's work (I wish he would write Lays of Ancient Britain), the poem telling " How well Horatius kept the bridge, In the brave days of old," seemed most admired by Dr. R. and his friend. Emma Wilderton told me afterward that Mr. Guy and his... | |
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When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit ; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping... 
