 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1800 - 314 pages
...praised the Duke Who such a fight did win. But what good came of it at last ?— Quoth little Peterkin. Why that I cannot tell, said he, But 'twas a famous victory. To RECOVERY. RECOVERY, where art thou ? Daughter of •Heaven, where shall we seek thy help ? Upon... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poetry - 1805 - 224 pages
...praised the Duke Who such a fight did win. But what good came of it at last ? Quoth little Peterkin. Why that I cannot tell, said he) But 'twas a famous victory; 47 St. GUJLBERTO* Addressed to a FRIEND. The work is done, the fabric is compleat ; Distinct the Traveller... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...prais'd the Duke Who such a.1glit did win, Butwtiat good came of it at last?— Quoth little Tciei-kin. Why that I cannot tell, said he. But 'twas a famous victory. HOHENLINDEN. On Linden, when the sun was low, All hloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter... | |
 | 1817 - 628 pages
...Duke, Who this great fight did win ; ' " But what good came of it at latt .'" Quoth little Peterkin. « Why that I cannot tell," said he, " But 'twas a famous victory." Southey's " Minor Poems," Vol. III. (1815) p. 167. This Poem is accidentally omitted in the " Contents,"... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 436 pages
...praised the duke Who such a fight did win. But what good came of it at last ? Quoth little Peterkin. Why that I cannot tell, said he, But 'twas a famous victory. TOBACCO The Marrow of Compliments (London, 1654] contains the following song in praise of tobacco:... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...the Duke, Who such a fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ?" Quoth little Peterkin; " Why that I cannot tell," said he, " But twas a FAMOUS VICTORY." v THE LAW STUDENT; ( Written some years ago, in imitation of Phillips's Splendid Shilling.") Happy... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1823 - 266 pages
...Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ?" Quoth little Peterkin. " Why that I cannot tell," said he, " But 'twas a famous victory." A TRUE BALLAD ST. ANTIDIUS, THE FOPE, AND THE DEVIL. JJeste Alendio cuentan las estorias que le avino,... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...Duke Who this great fight did win," " But what good came of it at last ?" Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he, " But 'twas a famous victory !" Southey. The concluding part of Burns' Collar's Saturday Night. THEN kneeling down, to Heaven's... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...Duke, Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he, " But 'twas a famous victory !" THE waters slept. Night's silvery veil hung low On Jordan's bosom, and the eddies curl'd Their glassy... | |
 | Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...praised the duke, Who such a fight did win. But what good came of it at last ? Quo!h little Feterkin. Why that I cannot tell, said he, But 'twas a famous victory. LINES WITH THE AUTUMNAL CROCUS. MARY HOW1TT. THY bower, with vine unshaded, Stands desolate and lone... | |
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It was the English,' Kaspar cried, 'Who put the French to rout; But what they fought each other for I could not well make out. But everybody said,' quoth he, 'That 'twas a famous victory. 
