 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 692 pages
...strike the slave for ever dumb. TO TflK CAMBRIC BRITONS, AXI> THEIR HART, Ills RAM All Of AOItiCODRT. FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance, Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...wholesome is the air, Or where the most impure, All times, and every where, The Muse is still in ure. THE sacred ill, Where none can sin against will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | Mrs. Anna Letitia - 1825 - 494 pages
...wonderfully flat and prosaic : the adventures are entertaining, however. Dover, Sept. 17, U85, 8 o'clock. Fair stood the wind for France — When we our sails advance ; Nor now to trust our chance * Longer would tarry .... IT is not very fair neither, for there is scarcely wind... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 484 pages
...wonderfully flat and prosaic : the adventures are entertaining, however. Dover, Sept. 17, 1785, 8 o'clock. Fair stood the wind for France — When we our sails advance ; Nor now to trust our chance Longer would tarry .... IT is not very fair neither, for there is scarcely wind enough... | |
 | James Endell Tyler - 1838 - 512 pages
...expressions may sound strangely and quaintly to our ears. It will be found in Drayton's Works, p. 424. " Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance; . Nor now to prove our chance, Longer will tarry; But, putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - 1840 - 570 pages
...gave rise to the following spirited burst of poetry, entitled — OUR CAMBRO-BRITONS TO THEIR HARP. Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance, Longer will tarry. But putting to the main, At Kaux the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - 1840 - 594 pages
...gave rise to the following spirited burst of poetry, entitled — OUR CAMBRO-BKITONS TO THEIR HARP. Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance, Longer will tarry. But putting to the main, At Kaux the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...old-womanish. The man who really invents a new stanza is a poet. Caveat, I don't mean, by inventing a new stanza, reviving an obsolete one, as Longfellow...of Agincourt — " Fair stood the wind for France, ЛУben we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer would tarry ; But, putting to the... | |
 | 1875 - 676 pages
...seem to have fallen on the well-attuned ear of the author of The Charge of the Light Brigade:— " Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance ; Nor now to prove our chance, Longer will tarry; But. putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
 | 1850 - 544 pages
...Maimouth (vol. ii. Appendix, p. 417.), is a ballad ou The Battle of Agincourt, beginning as follows: — " Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance ; Nor now to prove our chance. Longer will tarry : But, putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed... | |
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FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. 
