 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 558 页
...his time in consequence of his craftiness, saw at one glance the ruling passion of the great *".... as soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty,...drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua vitas." Dragon of Wanttey. Van Poffenburgh, and humored him in all his valorous fantasies. Their... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 192 页
...this fight all people then Got up on trees arid houses, On churches some, and chimneys too ; But these put on their trousers, Not to spoil their hose. As...of aqua-vitae. It is not strength that always wins, For wit doth strength excel ; Which made our cunning champion Creep down into a well, Where he did... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1887 - 456 页
...then Got up on trees and houses, On churches some, and chimneys too ; But these put on their trowses, Not to spoil their hose. As soon as he rose, To make...drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua-vitse. It is not strength that always wins, For wit doth strength excell; Which made our cunning... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1888 - 542 页
...the ruling passion of the great Van Poffenburgh, and humored him in all bin valorous fantasies. 1 " , as soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, He drank by the tale, six pots of ale, Aod a quart of aqua vitae." Dragon qf Wantlty. Their detachments were accordingly drawn up ill front... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1890 - 442 页
...More of More Hall, on the morning of his battle with the monster, invoked the saints no more, but— To make him strong and mighty — He drank by the tale Six pots of ale And a quart of aqua-vitas. So ended the sublime sport of dragon-slaying. Its only remnant may now be seen in Borneo,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 页
...put on their trousers, Not to spoil their hose. As soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, Ho drank, by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua-vitas. It is not strength that always wins, For wit doth strength excel ; Which made our cunning... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, John Frederick Stanford - 1891 - 868 页
...(one of them stiled Aqua vita, another AquaCalestis: PURCHAS, Microcosmus, ch. xxxv. p. 333. bef. 1641 To make him strong and mighty, | He drank by the tale six pots of ale, j And a quart of aqua-vitas: Percy's Reliques, p. 554 (1857). 1643 pay is the poore Souldiers Aqua... | |
 | J. A. Erskine Stuart - 1892 - 236 页
...porcupig,' and the cattle for ' some strange, outlandish hedgehog.' When he rose in the morning, ' To make him strong and mighty, He drank, by the tale, six pots of ale And a quart of aqua vitce,' Thus equipped and with his valour braced up, he went to Wantley, concealing himself in... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1893 - 628 页
...Got up on trees and houses, 90 On churches some, and chimneys too; But these put on their trowses, Not to spoil their hose. As soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, in He drank by the tale, six pots of ale, 95 And a quart of aqua-vita;. VOL. i, [It 284] It is not... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 页
...like the magnanimous More of Morehall,1 was his invariable practice on all great occasions ; this »". as soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty,...drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua vitse." Dragon of Wantley, done, he put himself at their head, and issued forth from his castle,... | |
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Not to spoil their hose. As soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, He drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua-vitae. 
