 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1867 - 814 pages
...the ' Chevy Chase' of our childhood, — " For Wkldrinpton my heart is As one in doleful dumps, \ , For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." But whatever the " pluck" of the then owner of this estate, a similar spirit of determined prosecution... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...from dumb, and thought to express the silent grief which arises from deep affliction. It sometimes For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. And with Earl Douglas there was slain Sir Hugh Montgomery, Sir Charles Murray, that from the field... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...Sidney. Take this stanza, for instance : " For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." It would be hard to find poetry in this ; but how different is the original, (which I quote from memory)... | |
 | Sir Richard Hawkins - America - 1847 - 284 pages
...This reminds us of the familiar lines : " For Widdrington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." — Chevy 0/iace. "• The other proofe is, that such of them as fight on horsebacke, are but slightly... | |
 | Edward Hugessen Knatchbull- Hugessen (1st baron Brabourne.) - 1850 - 66 pages
...grounds, The Ch-lt-rn H-ndr-ds take. 40. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. 41. Of fifteen hundred Englishmen, Went home but fifty three ; The rest were slain in Chevy Chase,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...was slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps; For when his legs were smitten off He fought upon his stumps. ****** Of fifteen hundred Englishmen, Went home but fifty-three; The rest were slain in Chevy-Chase,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...reminds him of the familiar lines, — " ' For Widdrington I needs must wail, As one in doleful dumps; For, when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.' " It must not avail him, that he has but quoted from the ballad of Chovy Chase. It is the most deformed... | |
 | Robert Simpson - 1853 - 196 pages
...works besides. The stanza is this : — " But Witherington I needs must name, As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." The Witheringtons, it is said, came into this country under the auspices of the Douglasses, their descendents... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 642 pages
...denied to meaner and unmutilated men: — For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. Pro Witherington sit gemitua Ac si in tristibus, Qui pugnavil de genibus Truncatis cruribus. All wUl... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...slain, Whose prowess did surmount. For Witherington needs must I wail, As one in doleful dumps ; ' For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. 116 ENGLISH MINSTRELSY. [ELIZABETH, The rest were slain in Chevy-Chase, Under the greenwood tree. Next... | |
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For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. 
