| 1818 - 618 sidor
...beneath should have been introduced in a note. The following couplet was made by a Mr. (.'¡infield, who was employed in rendering the Highlands of Scotland...the finest military roads which ever were made in ep wild a country. He must have felt the true •' fine phrensy" of which Shakspeare sings, before... | |
| Thomas Alexander Boswell - 1825 - 346 sidor
...of him. Indeed, all who travel on the Continent may exclaim with the Scotch inscription, " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless General Wade," — or Buonaparte. For he has done wonders ; the Alps, the Mountains of Tarar, in the... | |
| Thomas Alexander Boswell - 1825 - 676 sidor
...hnri. Indeed, all who travel on the Continent may exclaim with the Scotch inscription, ' " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless General Wade," — or -Buonaparte. For he has done wonders; the Alps, the Mountains of Tarar, in the... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1836 - 348 sidor
...cut off." Which savours a little of the spirit of the celebrated distich on the Scotch roads : — " Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless MARSHAL WADE." N'importe; so it was: and to the gallant lieutenant with the tail, I imparted the history... | |
| Roads - 1839 - 404 sidor
...and wheel-carriages both, at * The epigram here referred to is as follows : — " Oh ! had you only seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade ! " one valiant effort of courage and science. His organ of quarter-masteriveness must... | |
| 1844 - 776 sidor
...readers are doubtless familiar with the encomiastic epigram upon their maker : — " Oh !_ had you only seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless Marshal Wade!" " The epigram on Marshal Wade," says a modern querulous topographer, " is well known,... | |
| William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - 524 sidor
...or the Cobler, was often in view. Often did the distich occur, as we journeyed on : — ' If you had seen these roads before they were made You'd lift up your hands, and bless G. Wade." "This morning, the 14th, we examined the grounds of the Duke. The castle is modern, but elegant,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 362 sidor
...a jesting way, this grievance is obliquely noticed in the celebrated couplet — ' Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade.' The pleasant bull here committed conceals a most melancholy truth, and one of large... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 538 sidor
...for troops, for which works he was immortalized by a Scotch poet in the verse — " Had you travell'd these roads before they were made. You'd lift up your hands, and bless General Wade." The grand-father of the Field- Marshal had considerable grants of land in the neighbourhood... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 562 sidor
...troops, for which works he was immortalized by a Scotch poet in the verse j , , " Had you traveled these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless General Wade." 402 SIR FREDERICK FAULKNER. ago will remember an Irish gentleman, tall and portly, a... | |
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