 | 1834 - 320 pages
...in mine. 23* A TRUE THOUGH TOUGH YARN, ABOUT PATTYGONEY AND bTHER MATTERS. BY TYKONE POWER. . « " Ye gentlemen of England, who sit at home at ease, How little do you think upon the dangers or the seas.1 ' A FEW years 'bapk it was my hard fortune to be penned, for four months, on board a... | |
 | Irish traveller - 1835 - 964 pages
...them. I remember the first song I ever learned was a fine old English ballad, beginning thus : — " Ye gentlemen of England, who sit at home at ease, How little do you think upon the dangers of the seas." • The air is manly and expressive ; while the sentiments it breathes are so descriptive of... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1839 - 384 pages
...desolation with confusion and dismay. This is the land-scene, what then is the state of things at sea! " Ye gentlemen of England, who sit at home at ease, How little do you think upon the dangers of the seas!" Many a boat is drifting on the beach bottom uppermost ; many a barge driven from its moorings;... | |
 | 1839 - 474 pages
...place on our own shores. I may well quote an old song, and say " Ye gentlemen of England, who live at home at ease, How little do you think upon the dangers of the seas." Amongst these dangers, a frequent and a most fearful accident is, the loss of the ship's rudder... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 374 pages
...desolation with confusion and dismay. This is the land-scene, what then is the state of things at sea! " Ye gentlemen of England, who sit at home at ease, How little do you think upon the dangers of the seas!" Many a boat is drifting on the beach bottom uppermost ; many a barge driven from its moorings;... | |
 | John Richard Digby Beste - 1841 - 958 pages
...not ask for whom those prayers were breathed. I CHAPTER XIII. A SEA FIGHT, THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Ye gentlemen of England, Who sit at home at ease, How little do you think about The dangers of the seas ! THE sun of the first of June, 1">28, the glorious sun of Naples, still... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1841 - 444 pages
...place on our own shores. I may well quote an old song, and say " Ye gentlemen of England, who live at home at ease, How little do you think upon the dangers of the seas." Amongst these dangers, a frequent and a most fearful accident is, the loss of the ship's rudder... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 pages
...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 ; but it is an imperfect and... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 1482 pages
...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, is not quite true. The gentlemen... | |
 | sir John Stepney Cowell- Stepney (1st bart.) - 1854 - 314 pages
...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 French were more al fresco, with... | |
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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. 
