 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 страница
...lines are not especially witty, but they have at least vivacity and a merry turn of style : To all ye ladies now at land We men at sea indite, But first...Neptune too, We must implore to write to you. With a fa, la, la, la, la. For though the Muses should prove kind, And fill our empty brain, Yet if rough... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 страница
...addressing them from betweendecks far off, one could read it even with tears : — To all you ladies now on land We men at sea indite ; But first would have you...Neptune too We must implore to write to you, With a fa la la la la. For, though the Muses should prove kind, And fill our empty brain, Yet, if rough Neptune... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 страница
...to live. JOHN MILTOS. "TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW ON LAND." SONG WRITTEN AT SEA. To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite ; But first would have...and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you. For tho' the Muses should prove kind, And fill our empty brain ; Yet if rough Neptune rouse the wind,... | |
 | James Waylen - 1880 - 488 страница
...the tune of, To all you ladies now at land. Printed by J. Jackson, London, 1730. To all you merchants now at land We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write. It inay'nt be safe the truth to say ; If silent, — Britain we betray. With a fal lal la. Famed Dunkirk... | |
 | Janet Hardy - 1880 - 320 страница
...dapper little midshipman, merrily breaking out into a stave of the old song : "'To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite : But first would have you understand How hard it is to write or think, The Muses now and Neptune, too, We must implore to write to you." ' ' Don't, don't, I entreat... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 страница
...The Dunciad.' SONG. WRITTEN AT SEA, IN THE FIRST DUTCH WAR, 1665, THE NIGHT BEFOR1 AN ENGAGEMENT. 1 To all you ladies now at land, We men at sea indite...Neptune too, We must implore to write to you, With a fa, la, la, la, la. 2 For though the Muses should prove kind, And fill our empty brain ; Yet if rough... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 страница
...[Written at Sea in the first Dutch War, 1665, the Night before an Engagement.] To all you ladies now on land We men at sea indite, But first would have you...and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you. For though the Muses should prove kind, And fill our empty brain ; Yet if rough Neptune rouse the wind,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 страница
...epoch ot vers-de-socie'te', as it has flourished from Prior down to Austin Dobson, SONG WRITTEN AT SEA. To all you Ladies now at land We men at sea indite...and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you. For though the Muses should prove kind, And fill our empty brain, Yet if rough Neptune rouse the wind... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 200 страница
...WRITTEN AT SEA IN THE FIRST DUTCH WAR, 1665, THE NIGHT BEFORE AN ENGAGEMENT. To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite ; But first would have...Neptune too, We must implore to write to you, With a fa, la, la, la, la ! For though the Muses should prove kind, And fill our empty brain ; Yet, if rough... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 страница
...yearn, I could no deeper love.' Dorset, at sea, on the eve of battle, addresses a song to the ladies: 'To all you Ladies now at land We men at sea indite;...would have you understand How hard it is to write; The Musee now, and Neptune too, \Ve must implore to write to you.' Then for the sake of speaking: 'While... | |
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TO all you ladies now at land We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write : The Muses now, and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you — With a fa, la, la, la, la. 
