| Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - Bulls, Colloquial - 1803 - 322 pages
...; it is matched, though on a more contracted scale, by an inscription on a british finger-post— " Had you seen these roads before they were made, " You'd lift up your eyes, and bless marshal Wade !" There is, however, a rabbi, mentioned by Bayle, who far exceeds both... | |
| William Henry Ireland - English literature - 1815 - 362 pages
...of which the Bard sings, before he could have taken this sublime flight from Parnassus. Had you but seen these roads — before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless Marshall Wade. Bortor Qua mens est hodie, cur eadem non piierofuit, Vel cur his animis incolumes non... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - English literature - 1824 - 402 pages
...it is matched, though on a more contracted scale, by an inscription on a British finger-post — " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your eyes, and bless marshal Wade !" There is, however, a rabbi, mentioned by Bayle, who far exceeds both... | |
| Thomas Alexander Boswell - 1825 - 676 pages
...memorial of' hnri. Indeed, all who travel on the Continent may exclaim with the Scotch inscription, ' " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless General Wade," — or -Buonaparte. For he has done wonders; the Alps, the Mountains of Tarar, in the... | |
| Thomas Alexander Boswell - 1825 - 346 pages
...memorial of him. Indeed, all who travel on the Continent may exclaim with the Scotch inscription, " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless General Wade," — or Buonaparte. For he has done wonders ; the Alps, the Mountains of Tarar, in the... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 354 pages
...it is matched, though on a more contracted scale, by an inscription on a British finger-post — " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your eyes, and bless Marshal Wade ! " There is, however, a rabbi, mentioned by Bayle, who far exceeds both... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 344 pages
...it is matched, though on a more contracted scale, by an inscription on a British finger-post — " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your eyes, and bless Marshal Wade !" There is, however, a rabbi, mentioned by Bayle, who far exceeds both... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1836 - 348 pages
...Which savours a little of the spirit of the celebrated distich on the Scotch roads : — " Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless MARSHAL WADE." N'importe; so it was: and to the gallant lieutenant with the tail, I imparted the history of the injury... | |
| Roads - Bridges - 1839 - 404 pages
...and wheel-carriages both, at * The epigram here referred to is as follows : — " Oh ! had you only seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands and bless Marshal Wade ! " one valiant effort of courage and science. His organ of quarter-masteriveness must have been woefully... | |
| Christianity - 1844 - 776 pages
...readers are doubtless familiar with the encomiastic epigram upon their maker : — " Oh !_ had you only seen these roads before they were made, You'd lift up your hands, and bless Marshal Wade!" " The epigram on Marshal Wade," says a modern querulous topographer, " is well known, but we might... | |
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