 | 1837 - 612 pages
...failed so miserably. " Chatham's earl, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachau, Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em. Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." TIte Popular Encyclopedia; being a General Dictionary of Arts, Science, Literature, Biography, History,... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - 1837 - 778 pages
...resist giving: — " The Earl of Chatham, with his sabre drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." Sir Richard was a near neighbour of mine when I was writing the history. lie constantly rode a fine... | |
 | 1854 - 772 pages
...epigram made at the time. Great Chatham, with his sabre drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan, Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham ! The fact is, that we must traverse Belgium before we can reach the frontiers of fairy land. We approach... | |
 | sir John Stepney Cowell- Stepney (1st bart.) - 1854 - 314 pages
...of Chatham, with his sword drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard Strachan, ' longing to be at 'em,' Stood waiting — for the Earl of Chatham," — leave no further description of this melancholy history necessary. From Aldea Velha we moved on... | |
 | Michael Rafter - 1855 - 362 pages
...poetical invention. " Lord Chatham, with his sabre drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." But though slow, and by no means sure, seemed the maxim of our commanders, nothing could surpass the... | |
 | George Dodd - 1856 - 634 pages
...Walcheren In 180» : The Earl of Chatham, with hie sword drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Straohan ¡ Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. arrangements made on the part of the respective governments. As to the naval operations, so little... | |
 | Michael Rafter - 1858 - 352 pages
...poetical invention " I-ord Chatham, with his sabre drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan , Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." But though slow, and by no means sure, seemed the maxim of our commanders, nothing could surpass the... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 pages
...the English dramatist. " Lord Chatham, with his rapier drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." But how are we going to get at each other, my Public and I ? Again I say, that I speak of myself as... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 870 pages
...the Walcheren expedition, Lord Chatham, with his sabre drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. And now began the really most important part of her life, though not that by which she is best remembered,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1862 - 360 pages
...— " The Earl of Chatham, with sword undrawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Kichard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." The expedition entered the Scheldt on the 30th of July, and the army disembarked on the Isle of Walcheren... | |
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The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. 
