| Anne MacVicar Grant - 1806 - 290 ページ
...field, at Fort George, who moft poeticjily exclaimed, VoL. I, O- « Had ( I". ) " Had you feen thofe roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and blefs Marflial Wade." I wifh I could fhare with you the pleafure I felt, in admiring, in a fweet ftill... | |
| Anne MacVicar Grant - 1807 - 240 ページ
...good-natured Irishman, Governor Caulfield, at Fort George, who most poetically exclaimed, " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless Marshal Wade." I wish I could share with you the pleasure I felt, in admiring, in a sweet still May... | |
| Edward Burt - 1822 - 394 ページ
...which the traveller is reminded of his merits by the following naive couplet:— " Had you seen tksse roads before they were made, " You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade!!!" for their horses being never shod, the gravel would soon whet away their hoofs, so as to render them... | |
| 1828 - 746 ページ
...the form, the substance of “ the Laird's distich” has been demonstrated by experience. “Had you but seen these roads, before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade.” Yes, any one who saw how very soon the sides of those roads, in districts where there was not previously... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 392 ページ
...might have some national pretension to the second sight, produced the celebrated couplet — Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your bands, and bless General Wade. Nothing indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 870 ページ
...Had you bot seen these made before they were made, You would hold up your hand», and bless Genera] Wade. Nothing indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses penetrated and pervious in even quarter by broad accesses of the best possible con struction, and so superior to what the country... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 ページ
...North. A kindred f<wK*g produced the celebrated naive couplet, stuck up near Fortwilliam, " Had you teen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands and bless General Wade.",] Wade, called Fort Augustus. The second line extends from Dalnacardoch north to the barracks of Ruthven,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 476 ページ
...A kindred feeling produced the celebrated naive couplet, stuck up near Fortwilliam, " Had you teen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands and bless General Wade."} "Wade, called Fort Augustus. The second line extends from Dalnacardoch north to the barracks of Ruthven,... | |
| 1896 - 854 ページ
...Wade, whose engineering triumphs in the Highlands are recorded in the historic bull, If you'd seen the roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands and bless General Wade. Whatever Wade's merits may have been as an embryo Macadam, as a soldier they did not exist. He gave... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 524 ページ
...might have some national pretension to the second sight, produced the celebrated couplet — Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade. Nothipg indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses penetrated and pervious in every... | |
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