 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.  Macmillan's Magazine - Página 1301861Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1886 - 562 páginas
...to sell." DE. WOLCOTT. THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN CHINA.* FAST night, among his fellow-roughs, -«—* He jested, quaffed and swore — A drunken private...Buffs Who never looked before ; To-day, beneath the foeraan's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown And type of all her race.... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 páginas
...Syne, ROBERT ТКАШ. SFENCS LOWILL. THE OLD POLITICIAN. 415 £ IK JJriuutc of the Onffs. LAST night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore...crown, And type of all her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-bom, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, A heart, with English instinct fraught, He yet can call his... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 344 páginas
...the Buffs,2 Who never looked before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place,3 Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her...English instinct fraught He yet can call his own. Aye, tear his body limb from limb, Bring cord, or axe, or flame ; He only knows, that not through him... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 344 páginas
...Last night, among his fellow-roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore ; A drunken private of the Buffs,2 Who never looked before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place,3 Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born,... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 páginas
...head and his body thrown upon a dunghill."— China Corrtsfondtttt of tkt London Timts.] LAST night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore;...looked before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, A heart with English instinct fraught,... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 404 páginas
...to all the three hundred, and all the Brigade ! Tennyson. XCVI THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS LAST night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore;...Buffs, Who never looked before. To-day, beneath the iceman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown And type of all her race.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 462 páginas
...alive, and was Immediately knocked OB the bead, killed, and his body thrown on a dunghllL 1,1-1 mght, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore ; A drunken private of the Bulb, Who never looked before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1893 - 370 páginas
...Private of the Buffs, who was taken prisoner by the Chinese and tortured to death. Last night, amid his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore : A drunken Private of the Bufls, Who never looked before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place : Ambassador... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 388 páginas
...his fellow roughs, He jested, quaff'd, and swore : A drunken private of the Buffs, Who never look'd before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands...her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewilder'd, and alone, A heart, with English instinct fraught, He yet can call his own. Ay, tear his... | |
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