 | Harriet Martineau - 1878 - 596 sider
...afterwards. In the Autumn, an epigram of unknown origin was in every body's mouth, all over England: " Lord Chatham, with his sword undrawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan; Sir Eichard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." The fleet set sail on the 28th... | |
 | William John Loftie - 1879 - 470 sider
...Pitt's elder brother — the dilatory hero of the epigram — " The Earl of Chatham with sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." The castle, indeed, is there, with its rough yellow keep, its pointed arches, and the walls, with their... | |
 | William John Loftie - 1879 - 464 sider
...Pitt's elder brother — the dilatory hero of the epigram — " The Earl of Chatham with sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." The castle, indeed, is there, with its rough yellow keep, its pointed arches, and the walls, with their... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 256 sider
...conduct on this occasion gave rise to the famous epigram — 'Great Chatham, with his sabre drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.' We shall pass over the youth of William Pitt, and the laborious studies by which he prepared himself... | |
 | Anthony Evelyn M. Ashley (hon.) - 1879 - 516 sider
...? If you did not it is a pity you should miss it, and I send it to you ; it is by Jekyll 1 : — ' Lord Chatham, with his sword undrawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, eager to get at 'em, Stood waiting — but for what ? — Lord Chatham I ' It is very good, I think,... | |
 | Alexander Fraser (17th baron Saltoun.) - 1879 - 398 sider
...expedition were commemorated in the well-known epigram:— " The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn, Was waiting for Sir Richard Strachan : Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Was waiting for the Earl of Chatham !" In the spring of 1811 Lord Saltoun again went abroad on active... | |
 | Alexander Fraser baron Saltoun - 1879 - 400 sider
...were commemorated in the well-known epigram : — " The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn, Was waiting for Sir Richard Strachan : Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em. Was waiting for the Earl of Chatham ! " In the spring of 1 81 1 Lord Saltoun again went abroad on active... | |
 | 1881 - 530 sider
...during this campaign that the unfortunate \Valeheren expedition was planned, in order to seize upon tiic French and Dutch shipping in the harbour of Antwerp....Chatham, with his sword undrawn, Stood waiting for Sir Itichard Strachan ; Sir Itichard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. Nothing... | |
 | Percy Melville Thornton - 1881 - 372 sider
...elaborate criticism in Parliament known only to the pages of Hansard. " Lord Chatham with his sabre drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." Lord Liverpool has, however, left on record the fact that abandonment of Walcheren was not finally... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1883 - 232 sider
...of both, condemned them alike in the following popular satire : Lord Chatham with his sword drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. 6. In the meantime, the pestilence was doing its ghastly work. A malady of the most fatal kind had... | |
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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. 
