The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met an host and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it. Essays in Idleness - Página 66de Agnes Repplier - 1893 - 224 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1829 - 682 páginas
...author's humour, we must leave him with our readers. The following is the ' War-Song of Dinas Vawr*:— ' The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep...carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met a host, and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it. ' On Dyfed's richest... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1829 - 264 páginas
...of all the appetencies, tendencies, and consequences of military glory : THE WAR.SONG OF DINAS VAWR. The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep...carry off the latter. We made an expedition ; We met a host, and quelled it; We forced a strong position, . * And killed the men who held it. On Dyfed's... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1829 - 274 páginas
...glory : THE WAR-SONG OF DINAS VAWR. The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are i'atter ; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition ; We met a host, and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it. On Dyfed's richest... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 684 páginas
...to imitate. The rhymes are also more felicitous, and the measure and grammar less objectionable. " The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep...therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We planned an expedition : • We met a host, and quelled it; We took a strong position, And killed the... | |
| 1842 - 536 páginas
...bard is chiefly directed. The chorus of the heroes of Dinas Vawr is the tale common to the period. " The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep...carry off the latter. We made an expedition : We met a host and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it. # '* * * * * "... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 páginas
...the flown — Way for the bier — make way ! MRS. IIEMANSLXXXVIL— THE WAR-SONG OF DIN AS VAUR. TUB mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it raeeter To carry off the ktter! We made an expedition ; We met a host, and quelled it ; We forced a... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 páginas
...flown — Way for the bier — make way ! LXXXVU.— THE WAR-SONG OF DINAS VAUE. THE mountain sheep ore sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter ; We therefore...carry off the latter ! We made an expedition ; We met a host, and quelled it ; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it. On Dyfed's richest... | |
| 1908 - 536 páginas
...any casual reader who has ever been able to put out of his head the divinely droll first lines : " The mountain sheep are sweeter. But the valley sheep...therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter." Was comic verse ever more august ? And of wine-songs is there any, outside Burns (and with how great... | |
| 1927 - 594 páginas
...author or of the poem have quoted the lines: The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley ¿heep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. Religion WAS JESrS INFLUENCED BY BUDDHISM? A Comparative Study of the Lives and Thoughts of Gautama... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 páginas
...of all the appetencies, tendencies, and consequences of military glory : THE WAE-SONG OF DINAS VAWK. The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep...a strong position, And killed the men who held it. On Dyfed's richest valley, Where herds of kine were browsing, We made a mighty sally, To furnish our... | |
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