 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 σελίδες
...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 :— ' Cold on Canadian...Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops'mingling with the milk he drew, >. Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 476 σελίδες
...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; " Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain: Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 426 σελίδες
...snow, his dog sitting in misery on the one side, on the other his widow, with a child in her arms. These lines were written beneath, — • * Cold on...parent wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, ber eye dissolved in dew, The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the «ad presage of his... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 422 σελίδες
...snow, his dog- sitting in misery on the one side, on the other his widow, with a child in her arms. These lines were written beneath, — • ' Cold on...hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her icldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops, mingling with the milk... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 σελίδες
...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 : " Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain : Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 σελίδες
...misery on one side, — on other, his widow, with a child in her arms, se lines were written beneath : u weel-gaun mill, Supply'd wi' store o' water, The heapet happens ebbing still, »lain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, Tbc big drops mingling with the milk he drew,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 σελίδες
...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 : ' Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain : Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 σελίδες
...poor Indian begged a leafy bed. Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourned z Y @ . Cave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery, baptised in tears. Thi« allusion to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 σελίδες
...Culd on Canadian hills or Minden 's plain, 1'crhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain ; I5f nt $ Z #ݙ Q Z P3n[ 6\ ~ C; 좋 = A`Mn D܁|< ^~f rO 2 y* o }Ŭ w A (¡ave toe sad presage of his future years, The child of misery, baptised in tears. This allusion to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 σελίδες
...with a child in her arms. These lines were written beneath — 'Cold on Canadian hills, orMin^en's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eve dissolved in dew, The biz drops mingling with the milk tie drew, Gave the sad presage 'of his future... | |
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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: —... 
