 | Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 448 Seiten
...More of More Hall, on the morning of his battle with the monster, invoked the saints no more, but— To make him strong and mighty — He drank by the tale Six pots of ale And a quart of aqua-vitae. So ended the sublime sport of dragon-slaying. Its only remnant may now... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1858 - 714 Seiten
...some, and chimneys too ; But these put on their trowses, Not to spoil their hose. As soon as he rose. To make him strong and mighty, He drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua-vitae. It is not strength that always wins, For wit doth strength excell ;... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 558 Seiten
...consequence of his craftiness, saw at one glance the ruling passion of the great *".... as soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, He drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua vitas." Dragon of Wanttey. Van Poffenburgh, and humored him in all his valorous... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1882 - 376 Seiten
...some, and chimneys too ; But these put on their trousers, Not to spoil their hose. As soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, He drank, by the tale, six pots of ale And a quart of aqua-vits. It is not strength that always wins, For wit doth strength excel ; Which... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 192 Seiten
...some, and chimneys too ; But these put on their trousers, Not to spoil their hose. As soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, He drank, by the tale, six pots of ale And a quart of aqua-vitae. It is not strength that always wins, For wit doth strength excel ; Which... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1887 - 458 Seiten
...some, and chimneys too ; But these put on their trowses, Not to spoil their hose. As soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, He drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua-vita3. It is not strength that always wins, For wit doth strength excell ;... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1890 - 442 Seiten
...More of More Hall, on the morning of his battle with the monster, invoked the saints no more, but— To make him strong and mighty — He drank by the tale Six pots of ale And a quart of aqua-vitas. So ended the sublime sport of dragon-slaying. Its only remnant may now... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, John Frederick Stanford - 1891 - 868 Seiten
...(one of them stiled Aqua vita, another AquaCalestis: PURCHAS, Microcosmus, ch. xxxv. p. 333. bef. 1641 To make him strong and mighty, | He drank by the tale six pots of ale, j And a quart of aqua-vitas: Percy's Reliques, p. 554 (1857). 1643 pay is the poore Souldiers... | |
 | J. A. Erskine Stuart - 1892 - 236 Seiten
...porcupig,' and the cattle for ' some strange, outlandish hedgehog.' When he rose in the morning, ' To make him strong and mighty, He drank, by the tale, six pots of ale And a quart of aqua vitce,' Thus equipped and with his valour braced up, he went to Wantley, concealing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 Seiten
...More of Morehall,1 was his invariable practice on all great occasions ; this »". as soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, He drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua vitse." Dragon of Wantley, done, he put himself at their head, and issued... | |
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Not to spoil their hose. As soon as he rose, To make him strong and mighty, He drank by the tale, six pots of ale, And a quart of aqua-vitae. 
