 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1833 - 406 pages
...name as her lover. The lady-killer was in Brussels ; and the puppy dragoon, the " carpet knight," — That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knew More than a spinster — was unhappily mistaken for the leader of the forlorn hope at Badajos. Poignant as her disappointment... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 364 pages
...treasures. — PLUTARCu. (1) [" Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric," tie. And for their rights connubial make... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...treasures. — PHI. TARCH. (1) [" Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric,*' &c. OlkelloJi And for their rights connubial... | |
 | Thomas Staunton St. Clair - Guyana - 1834 - 412 pages
...and his Lordship's cap was waving us on. It might have been truly said of me that I was one who Had never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knew, More than a spinster — " yet, on I dashed with my company ; -but, on gaining the heights, saw only a few jagers scouring... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1835 - 358 pages
...treasures. — PLUTARCH. (i) [" Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric," &c. And for their rights connubial make a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...a great arithmetician,1 One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow almost damned in a fair wife ;s That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric,3 Wherein the toged consuls 4 can propose As... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 360 pages
...treasures. — PLUTARCH. (1) [" Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric," &c. x. And for their rights connubial make... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...known To their approvers, they are people, such That mend upon the world. 31 — ii. 4. 264 A fellow That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly... | |
 | English periodicals - 1838 - 750 pages
...honour and dignity, and yet that this officer should be, not the Duke of Wellington, but an individual That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows. More than a spinster. The circumstance above alluded to, viz. the impossibility of securing... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...which the war has been conducted, have been the subject of much discussion. And by many a caviller " That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster." Studiously keeping out of view the chief and controlling principles which... | |
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That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster... 
