 | 1892 - 848 頁
...with a Russian force. The operations are well described in the popular distich : — The Duke of York, with twice ten thousand men, Marched up a hill, and then marched down again. But during the marches to and from Bergen he fought four hotly contested battles, which led to no result,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 682 頁
...expedition had been even less glorious than the one celebrated by some unknown bard, who tells us — " The king of France, with twice ten thousand men, Marched up a hill and then — marched down again." Cape Town is very regularly built, — all the streets being at right angles. It is clean and rather... | |
 | 1888 - 392 頁
...about the theme as the evening goes on. He can think of nothing but "The King of France with forty thousand men Marched up a hill, and then marched down again," and he cannot help feeling that his own expedition to the Doublehead Mountain might with advantage be told... | |
 | 1892 - 860 頁
...with a Russian force. The operations are well described in the popular distich : — The Duke of York, with twice ten thousand men, Marched up a hill, and then marched down again. But during the marches to and from Bergen he fought four hotly contested battles, which led to no result,... | |
 | Samuel Harden Church - 1894 - 564 頁
...ignominious retreat from Dunce Hill, which will ever recall the nursery rhyme, The King of France and forty thousand men Marched up a hill, — and then marched down again ! — and the first war with Scotland was over, and the Pacification of Berwick begun. Charles now turned with... | |
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With twice ten thousand men, Marched up a hill, and then marched down again, — and left Johnston to go unchecked to fatal Manassas. 