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
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 802 páginas
...quaff'd, and swore : A drunken private of the Buffs, Who never look'd before. To-day, beneath the foemau's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from...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... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - 1896 - 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, untaught,... | |
| 1861 - 864 páginas
...head, and his body thrown on a dunghill." — See China Correspondent of the " Times." Last nirjht, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore;...low-born, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, A heart, with KnglUh instinct fraught, He yet can call bis own. Ay, tear his body limb from limb, Bring cord, or... | |
| Sir Frederick Wedmore - 1897 - 322 páginas
...HASTINGS DOYLE (SIR) (1810-1888) The Private of the Buffs T AST night, among his fellow roughs, j ^ He jested, quaffed, and swore ; A drunken private...Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. "Some Seiks, and a private of the Buffs, having remained behind with the grog-carts, fell into the... | |
| FRANCIS T. PALGRAVE - 1906 - 538 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... | |
| Longman (Firm) - 1898 - 220 páginas
...not kneel to any C alive, and was thereupon. put to death•2. " Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, unta Bewildered and alone A heart with English instinct fraught He yet can call his own Ay, tear his body Hmb from Umb> Bring cord or axe or flame ! He only knows that not through him Shall England come to... | |
| Edwin Herbert Lewis, Lewis, Edwin Hebert - 1899 - 442 páginas
...night, among his fellow-roughs, He jested, quaff 'd, and swore : To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, 5 He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's...her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewilder'd, and alone, 10 A heart, with English instinct fraught, He yet can call his own. Ay, tear... | |
| John Macleay - 1900 - 280 páginas
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| Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill - 1900 - 284 páginas
...and his body thrown on a dunghill.' Whom Sir Francis thus not unworthily commemorates : Last night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore...Ambassador from Britain's Crown, And type of all her race. . . . t Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, thou all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England... | |
| William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - 504 páginas
...cheers for the living ; tears for the dead. THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN CHINA.1 FRANCIS H. DOYLE. Last night, among his fellow roughs He jested, quaffed, and swore...in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown M| And type of all her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered and alone, A heart,... | |
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