 | 1778 - 630 σελίδες
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourn'd her foldier (lain; Bent o'er her babe, her eye diflolv'd in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew. Gave the fad prefage of his future years, * The child of mifery, baptiz'd in tears ! Extras, from SAINTTHOMAS's... | |
 | Robert Burns, Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1790 - 308 σελίδες
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourn'd her foldier flain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye diflblv'd in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the fad prefage of his future years, The child of mifery, baptiz'd in tears ! R a Tfce AVirtuofo had a... | |
 | 1790 - 700 σελίδες
...Minden's plain-, Perhaps that mother mourn'd her foldier finin : Bent o'er her babe her eyes diflblved in dew— The big drops mingling with the milk he drew Gave the fad prefage of his future years, The child of mifery baptized in tears. t Plin. uti/up. Pinxit et agritm... | |
 | Robert Burns, Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1790 - 308 σελίδες
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourn'd her foldier flain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye diflblv'd in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the fad prefage of his future years, The child of mifery, baptiz'd in tears ! The INCURIOUS. A TALE. AVirtuofo... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 σελίδες
...Mindcn's plain, Perhaps that parent mourn 'd her foldier (lain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye difiolv'd tive of the (kics, fad prefage of his future years, The child of mifery, baptiz'd in tears ! § 131. Efiflk to a young... | |
 | James Roach - 1794 - 272 σελίδες
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourn'd her foldier Dain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye diffolv'd in dew, . The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the fad prefage of his future years, The child of mifery, baptiz'd in tears ! *,- -A. t/, tr,• i.•/f... | |
 | 1795 - 1334 σελίδες
...Minden'* plain. Perhaps that parent mourn'd her foldier (lain, Bent o'er her babe, her eye diflolv'd in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the fad prefagc of his future yeari, The child of mifery, baptiz'd in tears ! H» declaration again Л... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1288 σελίδες
...Minden's plain. Perhaps that parent mourn 'd her foldier (lain, Bent o'er her babe, her eye dilTolv'd in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the fad prefage of his future yean, The child of mifery, baptiz'd in tears ! Bajfrlinrion againft that... | |
 | Luke Booker - 1799 - 138 σελίδες
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that Parent mourn'd her Soldier flain ; Bent o'er her Babe, her eye diffolv'd in .dew. The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the fad prefage of his future years — The Child of Mifery, baptiz'd in Tears." Whoever can read thefe... | |
 | 1801 - 554 σελίδες
...Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourn'd her foldier flam; Bent o'er her babe, her eye.diflblv'd in dew, , • The big drops mingling with the milk he drew/ Gave the fad prefage of hi» future years, The child of mifery, baptic'd iu tears ! Mxtrauifrom SAINTtHOMAS'sMOUNT;e... | |
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Burns's manner was the effect produced upon him by a print of Bunbury's, representing a soldier lying dead on the snow, his dog sitting in misery on one side — on the other, his widow, with a child in her arms. These lines were written beneath: —... 
