 | Walter Scott - 1923 - 722 頁
...touches them off a little sharply; but then John was a Jacobite: — Mouths without hands, maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a-month, they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in time of need, at hand. I fancy they halted... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1924 - 52 頁
...of Rhodes — The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands ; maintained at vast expense,...a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blust'ring band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; This was the morn, when issuing on the guard,... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 頁
...flight. The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; 400 Mouths without hands ; maintained at vast expense....month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand : This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, 405 Drawn up in rank and file... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1926 - 548 頁
...lines that will continue to be applied to worthless government officials for many ages to come : " Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defense." Cowper supplied this characterisation for idlers : " An idler is a watch that wants both... | |
 | Oscar Leslie Johnson - 1927 - 108 頁
...Sept. 25, 1925. Manuscript in Llilitia Bureau. OHAP TER I Ami raw in fields the raw militia swarms, Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defense; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever but in times of need at hand. When... | |
 | 1927 - 816 頁
...next on* in pencil. THE RUDE MILITIA BY STUART ROSE And raw in fields the rude mUitiu swarms, Months without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defense; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever but in times of need at hand. Dryden... | |
 | 1907 - 1052 頁
...Kashmir : June 1907. THE MILITIA: AND SOME NECESSARY REFORMS Raw in fields the rude Militia swarms ; Mouths without hands : maintained at vast expense,...month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand. ])ryden, Cymon and Iphigenia. Extract from a letter of the Right Honourable... | |
 | 1982 - 204 頁
...timeless words: The country rings around wilh loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense,...month 'they march, a blustering band. And ever, but in times of need, at hand. •! 23. Test Act. 25 Car. 2. c. 2. (1673); Parliamcnlury Tot Act. 30 Car.... | |
 | Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert - 1986 - 964 頁
...and Iphigenia: The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense,...blustering band, And ever, but in time of need, at hand. At the end of the seventeenth century, Macaulay wrote, "there was scarcely a public man of note who... | |
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The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times... 
