 | William Henry Ireland - 1815 - 362 sider
...which the Bard sings, before he could have taken this sublime flight from Parnassus. Had you but seen these roads — before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless Marshall Wade. Bortor Qua mens est hodie, cur eadem non piierofuit, Vel cur his animis incolumes non... | |
 | Thomas Alexander Boswell - 1825 - 676 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Alexander Boswell - 1825 - 346 sider
...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... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1836 - 348 sider
...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 of the injury... | |
 | Roads - 1839 - 404 sider
...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 have been woefully... | |
 | 1844 - 772 sider
...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, but we might easily... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - 522 sider
...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 - 382 sider
...noticed in the celebrated couplet — ' Had yon seen but these roads before they were made, Yon'd lift np your hands and bless Marshal Wade.' The pleasant bull...adequately valued by those who reap their benefits, simply because the transition from the early and bad state to the final or improved state cannot be... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 538 sider
...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 sider
...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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The pleasant bull here committed conceals a most melancholy truth, and one of large extent. Innumerable are the services to truth, to justice, or society, which never can be adequately valued by those who reap their benefits, simply because the transition... 
