 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...exposition of their dangers." Edinburgh Review, vol. viii. p. 456. • " Health to great JEFFREY ! Heaven preserve his life, To flourish on the fertile...the field of Mars ! Can none remember that eventful clay, That ever glorious, almost fatal fray, When LITTLE'S leadless pistol met his eye, And Bow Street... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...extended exposition of their dangers." Edinburgh Revicw, vol. viii. p. 456. 1 " Health to great JEFFREY ! Heaven preserve his life, To flourish on the fertile...shores of Fife, And guard it sacred in his future wars, Smce authors sometimes seek the field of Mars ! Can none remember that eventful day, That ever glorious,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...literary society ; and it so happened that 1 [The following are the lines and note referred to : •' Can none remember that eventful day, That ever glorious, almost fatal fray. When Little's leadles» pistol met his eye. And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by ? 41 In 1806, Messrs. Jeffrey... | |
 | 1852 - 318 pages
...the event in his " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," m those lines : — Health to great Jeffrey ! Heaven preserve his life To flourish on the fertile...of Mars. Can none remember that eventful day, That ever-glorious, almost fatal fray, When Little's leadless pistol met his eye, And Bow-street myrmidons... | |
 | 1852 - 892 pages
...of the time by Moore, Byron once more revived the half forgotten slander in the lines on Jeffrey, " Can none remember that eventful day, That ever glorious,...his eye, And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by ?" Upon the appearance of this, which Byron made still more offensive by an explanatory note, Moore,... | |
 | 1853 - 800 pages
...ball, nnd the lines of Lord llyron concerning Jeffrey in the English Bards and Scotch Reviewers — Can none remember that eventful day, That ever glorious,...fatal fray, When Little's leadless pistol met his eye Aud Bow Street myrmidons stood laughing by ? In reference to this rumor, Mr. Moore says thut when he... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...for thee reserved with care, To wield in judgment, and at length to wear." Health to great Jeffrey ! Heaven preserve his life, To flourish on the fertile shores of Fife, And guard it sacred in its future wars, Since authors sometimes seek the field of Mars ! Can none remember that eventful day,J... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...Jeffrey ! Heaven preserve his life, To flourish on the fertile shores of Fife, And guard it sacred in its future wars, Since authors sometimes seek the field of Mars ! Can none remember that eventful day,J That ever glorious, almost fatal fray, When Little's leadless pistol met his eye, And Bow-street... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...future wars, Since authors sometimes seek the field of Man ! Can none remember that eventful day,J let me s Bovr-strcet myrmidons stood laughing by ? § Oh, day disastrous ! On her firm-set rock, Dunedin's castle... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 292 pages
...brilliant, rather than a great, satire. One of the liveliest passages is on Jeffrey's duel with Moore : " When Little's leadless pistol met his eye, And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by, 0 day disastrous ! On her firm-set rock Dunedin's Castle felt a secret shock ; 1 The Stuart blood has... | |
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Health to great Jeffrey ! Heaven preserve his life To flourish on the fertile shores of Fife, And guard it sacred in its future wars, Since authors sometimes seek the field of Mars ! Can none remember that eventful day ? That ever glorious, almost fatal... 
