 | James Stuart - Educators - 1911 - 406 pages
...the one I liked best to hear her repeat : And now we tell of Widdrington, Who was in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off He fought upon his stumps. The grand slaughter in it, and the total absence of the tender passions, accorded somewhat with my... | |
 | L. J. H. Grey - India - 1912 - 336 pages
...writes Witherington for Widdrington — " For Witherington my heart is woe, as one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, he fought upon his stumps." During my tenure (1866-67-68), I regulated this waste of good water, but at cost of great labour and... | |
 | Federico Llaverías - Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) - 1925 - 548 pages
...misfortune, but persevered, as observed in the ballad of Chevy Chace, Like one in doleful dumps," " For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." His lower extremity was snugly stowed away in a great wooden bowl. He spun around, like a top, on this... | |
 | 1855 - 1504 pages
...it 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 Chevy Chase. It is the most deformed... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1877 - 924 pages
...stealing, where there were no deer to be stolen, have all the gallantry of good Sir Richard Witherington, ' For when his legs were smitten off he fought upon his stumps.' These lesser details may be left, with only one note more. Professor Shairp does justice to Allan Ramsay... | |
 | Jadunath Sarkar - 1984 - 464 pages
...Chase does not shrink from this quaint conceit: For Witherington must I wail, As one in doleful dumps, For, when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps. The Rajput bard, who wrote Prithviraj-Raso in the opposite hemisphere but in the same age, goes one... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1921 - 316 pages
...Widderington or Witherington is mentioned : "For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps, For when his legs were smitten off He fought upon his stumps." 13. Coquet Isle. An island at the mouth of the river Coquet. 15. Alne. A river on which Alnwick is... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1905 - 860 pages
...Modern Ballad cChevy Chase,' viz. : — For Widdrington I needs must wail, As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps ; id goes on to say that this was composed the eclipse of art and taste, on the resto•tion of trie... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 848 pages
...the corresponding one in the new — " For Witherington I needs must wail, As one in doleful dumps. For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps." And with Earl Douglas there were slain Sir Hugh Mountgomery, Sir Charles Murray, that from the field... | |
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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. 
