Last night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore; A drunken private of the Buffs, Who never looked before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. Poor,... The Return of the Guards: And Other Poems - Página 65por Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - 1866 - 326 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1861 - 788 páginas
...Chinaman alive, was immediately knocked upon the head, and his body thrown on a dung-hill." — See China Correspondent of the " Times." Last night, among...in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, A heart,... | |
| 1861 - 520 páginas
...head, and his body thrown on a dung-hill." — See China Correspondent of the " Times." Lait ttiyht, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore...in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, A heart,... | |
| Robert James Leslie M'Ghee - 1862 - 410 páginas
...published at home, although I have only seen them in manuscript sent from England. LINES ON MOYSE'S DEATH. Last night, among his fellow roughs He jested, quaffed,...and swore ; A drunken private of the Buffs Who never look'd before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 páginas
...knocked upon the head, and his body thrown on a dunghill.' 1. Last night, among his fellows rough, He jested, quaffed, and swore— A drunken private...Elgin's* place— Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. 2. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered and alone— A heart... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 páginas
...Where neither Frenchmen nor rude seas encroach. John Robertson. CCLXXIII THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS. Last night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed,...in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, 10 A heart,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 páginas
...snow I What cares he ? he cannot know ; Lay him low ! GEORGE HENRY BOKER. THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS. Buifs, Who never looked before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador... | |
| Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1871 - 394 páginas
...sustained, or disease contracted in the service gf the Crown. THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS.— Pago 211. Last night among his fellow roughs He jested, quaffed, and swore, A drunken private of the Buffi Who never looked before. To-day beneath the foeman's frown He stnnds in Elgin's place,* Ambassador... | |
| 1872 - 900 páginas
...snow ! What cares he ? he cannot know ; Lay him low I GEORGE HENRY BOKER. THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS. e se focman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race.... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 páginas
...before any Chinaman alive, was immediately knocked upon the head, and his body thrown on a dunghill.' Last night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore ; A drunken private of the Buffs, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown Who never looked before. To-day, beneath... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1872 - 396 páginas
...was immediately led out fc. H and executed.] : VSl'tfflSAdST NIGHT, among his fellow roughs, H.HS1I He jested, quaffed, and swore ; A drunken private of the Buffs, Who never looked before. "BEAUTY is ITS OWN EXCUSE FOR BEING." — K. w. EMERSON. " POETS THEMSELYES MUST FALL, LIKE THOSE THEY... | |
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