 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...that parent mourned her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, Th« big drope age 1 * 0 baptised in tears. This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - English essays - 1852 - 568 pages
...written beneath : "Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain : Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew,...of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears." " Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1852 - 336 pages
...written underneath:— " Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain— Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in...sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptised in tears." Peace." 1 I whispered my information to a friend present, who mentioned it to Burns,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...wept her soldier -1 in : Bent o'er her bane, her eye dissnlved in dew, The hie drops mingling wilh the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears." "Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1852 - 580 pages
...and are ai follows : 'CoLD on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The. big drops mingled with the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery, baptized... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1853 - 498 pages
...written beneath : " Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew,...sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptised in tears." ' Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, Scottish - 1854 - 98 pages
...written beneath: " Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew,...sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptised in tears." ' Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 342 pages
...Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain— Bent o'er her babo, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with...sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptised in tears." Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...were written beneath: "Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain : Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew,...the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future yeargj The child of misery baptized in tears." "Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather... | |
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Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized... 
