 | Edward Burt - 1822 - 394 pàgines
...which the traveller is reminded of his merits by the following naive couplet:— " Had you seen tksse roads before they were made, " You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade!!!" for their horses being never shod, the gravel would soon whet away their hoofs, so... | |
 | 1828 - 746 pàgines
...form, the substance of “ the Laird's distich” has been demonstrated by experience. “Had you but seen these roads, before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade.” Yes, any one who saw how very soon the sides of those roads, in districts where there... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 386 pàgines
...might have some national pretension to the second sight, produced the celebrated couplet— Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade. Nothing indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses penetrated and pervious... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 392 pàgines
...have some national pretension to the second sight, produced the celebrated couplet — Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your bands, and bless General Wade. Nothing indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 470 pàgines
...of the young ladies of Edgeworthstown in 1825. I do not know that it has been printed. Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade. Nothing indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses penetrated and pervious... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 pàgines
...North. A kindred f<wK*g produced the celebrated naive couplet, stuck up near Fortwilliam, " Had you teen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands and bless General Wade.",] Wade, called Fort Augustus. The second line extends from Dalnacardoch north to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 476 pàgines
...A kindred feeling produced the celebrated naive couplet, stuck up near Fortwilliam, " Had you teen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands and bless General Wade."} "Wade, called Fort Augustus. The second line extends from Dalnacardoch north to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 620 pàgines
...have some national pretension to the second sight, produced the celebrated couplet — Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade. Nothing indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses penetrated and pervious... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - 710 pàgines
...national pretension to the second sight, produced the celebrated couplet — Had you but seen these roada before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade. Nothing indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses penetrated and pervious... | |
 | 1896 - 854 pàgines
...Wade, whose engineering triumphs in the Highlands are recorded in the historic bull, If you'd seen the roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands and bless General Wade. Whatever Wade's merits may have been as an embryo Macadam, as a soldier they did not... | |
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Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade. 
