 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 head. "With fire and sword the country...  The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Page 426edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Conduct of life - 1844 - 200 pages
...to route ; " But what they killed each other for, " I never could make out ; " But every body 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...French to rout; And what they kill'd each other for I ne'er could well make out. But every body 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... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...French to rout : And what they killed each other for I could not well make out : But every body 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers (Elementary) - 1844 - 184 pages
...French to rout ; But what they killed each other for, I could not well make out. But every body said," quoth he, " That 'twas a famous victory. " My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by ; They burned his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly : So with his wife... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...French to rout; But what they kill'd each other for, I could not well make out 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...French to rout ; But what they kill'd each other for I could not well make out.5 But everybody said," quoth he, " That twas a famous victory ! " My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by ;6 They bum'd his dwelling to the ground, And he was forc'd to fly : So, with his wife... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
..."It was the English," Kaspar cried, 212 Southey. "I could not well make out. "But every body 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... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...French to rout ; •But what they kill'd each other for, I could not well make out. 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1854 - 184 pages
...French to rout ; But what they kill'd each other for, I could not well make out. 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... | |
 | Poetry book - Children's poetry - 1854 - 152 pages
...French to rout ; But what they kill'd each other for I could not well make out : But every body said," quoth he, " That 'twas a famous victory. " My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by ; They burn'd his cottage to the ground, And he was forced to fly : So with his wife... | |
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