 Miles Standish took the bowl, and filled it to the brim ; The little Captain stood and stirred the posset with his sword, And all his sturdy men-at-arms were ranged about the board. He poured the fiery Hollands in, — the man that never feared, — He...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 7edited by - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 692 pages
...prelacy ; and so it was. perhaps, He went to Leyden, where he found conventicles aud schnaps. Twas on a dreary winter's eve, the night was closing dim, When old Miles Standish took the bowl, and fill'd it to the brim ; The little captain stood and stirr'd the posset with his sword, And all his... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 pages
...new abodes, — [more, — To judge by what is still on hand, — at least a hundred loads. 'T was on a dreary winter's eve, the night was closing dim, When old Miles Staudish took the bowl, and filled it to the brim ; The little captain stood and stirred the posset... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 458 pages
...brim ; The little Captain stood and stirr'd the posset with his sword, And all his sturdy men-at-arms were ranged about the board. He poured the fiery Hollands in — the man that never fear'd — He took a long and solemn draught, and wiped big yellow beard ; And one by one the musketeers... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 460 pages
...brim; The little Captain stood and siirrM the posset with his sword, And all his sturdy men-at-arms were ranged about the board. He poured the fiery Hollands in — the man that never fear'd — He took a long and solemn draught, and wiped his yellow beard ; And one by one the musketeers... | |
 | Recitations - 1885 - 180 pages
...furniture, to fill their new abodes— To judge by what is.still on hand, at least a hundred loads. Twas on a dreary winter's eve, the night was closing dim,...arms were ranged about the board. He poured the fiery Holland in—the man that nevei fearedHe took a long and solemn draught, and wiped his yellow beard;... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - Arctic regions - 1885 - 316 pages
...recited a portion of the lines of Dr. Holmes, "On Lending a Punch-bowl." He began with the stanza, ""IVas on a dreary winter's eve, the night was closing dim. When old Miles StandUh took the bowl and filled it to the brim. Thc little captain stood and stirred the posset with... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 596 pages
...was on a dreary winter's eve, the night was closing dim, When brave Miles Standish took the bowl, aud filled it to the brim; The little Captain stood and...stirred the posset with his sword, And all his sturdy men-at-arms were ranged about the board. He poured the fiery Hollands in, —the man that never feared,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 416 pages
...at least a hundred loads. " 'T was on a dreary winter's eve, the night was closing dim, When brave Miles Standish took the bowl, and filled it to the...stirred the posset with his sword, And all his sturdy men-at-arms were ranged about the board. " He poured the fiery Hollands in, — the man that never... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 412 pages
...at least a hundred loads. " 'T was on a dreary winter's eve, the night was closing dim, When brave Miles Standish took the bowl, and filled it to the...stirred the posset with his sword, And all his sturdy men-at-arms were ranged about the board. " He poured the fiery Hollands in, — the man that never... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 412 pages
...at least a hundred loads. " 'T was on a dreary winter's eve, the night was closing dim, When brave Miles Standish took the bowl, and filled it to the...stirred the posset with his sword, And all his sturdy men-at-arms were ranged about the board. ' ' He poured the fiery Hollands in, — the man that never... | |
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