 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 404 էջ
...name as her lover. The lady-killer was in Brussels ; and the puppy dragoon, the " carpet knight," — That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knew More than a spinster — was unhappily mistaken for the leader of the forlorn hope at Badajos.... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 406 էջ
...name as her lover. The lady-killer was in Brussels ; and the puppy dragoon, the " carpet knight," — That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knew More than a spinster — was unhappily mistaken for the leader of the forlorn hope at Badajos.... | |
 | Thomas Staunton St. Clair - 1834 - 412 էջ
...and his Lordship's cap was waving us on. It might have been truly said of me that I was one who Had never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knew, More than a spinster — " yet, on I dashed with my company ; -but, on gaining the heights, saw... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 358 էջ
...of Hortensius very poor, but returned to the bed of Cato loaded with treasures. — PLUTARCH. (i) [" Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio,...than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric," &c. And for their rights connubial make a stand, [tude : When their liege husbands treat them with ingratiAnd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 360 էջ
...house of Hortensius very poor, but returned to toe bed of Cato loaded with treasures. — PLUTARCH. (1) [" Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael...than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric," &c. x. And for their rights connubial make a stand, [tude : When their liege husbands treat them with ingratiAnd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 էջ
...a great arithmetician,1 One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow almost damned in a fair wife ;s That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division...battle knows More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric,3 Wherein the toged consuls 4 can propose As masterly as he. Mere prattle, without practice,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 էջ
...known To their approvers, they are people, such That mend upon the world. 31 — ii. 4. 264 A fellow That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division...More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he : mere prattle, without practice, Is all his... | |
 | 1847 - 608 էջ
...which the war has been conducted, have been the subject of much discussion. And by many a caviller " That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster." Studiously keeping out of view the chief and controlling principles which have all along governed the... | |
 | 1838 - 750 էջ
...honour and dignity, and yet that this officer should be, not the Duke of Wellington, but an individual That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows. More than a spinster. The circumstance above alluded to, viz. the impossibility of securing a succession of the same qualities... | |
 | 1839 - 776 էջ
...All the explanations are forced. Cassio had no wife, and his treatment of Bianca, who stands in place Nor the division of a battle knows, More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric. Wherein the toned consuls can propose As masterly as he ; mere prattle, without practice, Is all hia... | |
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That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster... 
