 | 1846 - 810 pages
...serene rectory, with a steady income and a calm scene, is conscious of no vacillation. ' Ye clergymen of England, Who live at home at ease, How little do ye know Of the dangers of the seas.' The very lustre of their celebrity makes conspicuous all the incidents... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1846 - 810 pages
...serene rectory, with a steady income and a calm scene, is conscious of no vacillation. ' Ye clergymen of England, Who live at home at ease, How little do ye know Of the dangers of the seas.' The very lustre of their celebrity makes conspicuous all the incidents... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 pages
...other man, exposed as he constantly is to the danger of a watery grave. You know it has been sung, " Ye gentlemen of England, Who live at home at ease, How little do you think upon The dangers of the seas." Lord Byron has described a shipwreck in a very beautiful manner... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 1482 pages
...interestingclassical memorials, we returned up the Rhone, and in due time arrived safelv in Paris. SHIPWRECKS. 1 Ye gentlemen of England who live at home at ease, How little do you think upon the dangers of the seas.' -iy HIS, like many other sing-song' statements ~ or implications,... | |
 | Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle, Sir James Edward Alexander - 1852 - 356 pages
...Grand Brulg, &c.—EDITOR. CHAPTER X. Rebellion in Upper Canada, in November and December, 1837. " YE gentlemen of England who live at home at ease," how little can you feel the situation in which your countrymen were placed in the winter of 1837, in Canada. I... | |
 | sir John Stepney Cowell- Stepney (1st bart.) - 1854 - 314 pages
...although the main force had been routed, night after night much desultory skirmishing ensued. " Oh ye gentlemen of England Who live at home at ease, How little do you think upon The dangers of the— Fleas .'" This, for the best part of five weeks, was our home;... | |
 | Henry Newland - 1854 - 478 pages
...open air, and occasionally on peculiarly dirty sheepskins in the post-houses. Oh those sheepskins — "Ye gentlemen of England, Who live at home at ease, How little do you think upon The dangers of the fleas ! " THE FOREST INN. 295 CHAPTER XXI. THE MEET. "A various scene... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1854 - 670 pages
...resembled more, with due deference to Hibernian proprietors, an Irish hovel than a human habitation. " Oh, ye gentlemen of England, who live at home at ease, How little do you think upon the dangers of the — fleas." In Spain, although not quit of these hopping vampires,... | |
 | 1854 - 312 pages
...although the main force had been routed, night after night much desultory skirmishing ensued. " Oh ye gentlemen of England Who live at home at ease, How little do you think upon The dangers of the—Fleas !" This, for the best part of five weeks, was our home; the... | |
 | 1854 - 542 pages
...classical memorials, we returned up the Rhone, and in due time arrived safely in Paris. SHIPWRECKS. 1 Ye gentlemen of England who live at home at ease, How little do you think upon the dangers of the seas/ j? HIS, like many other sing-song- statements or implications,... | |
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You gentlemen of England who live at home at ease, how little do you think upon " the dangers of this infernal hunting. 
