 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
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 páginas
...dunghill.] LAST night among his fellow-roughs He jested, quaffed, and swore, A drunken private of the Buns Who never looked before. To-day beneath the foeman's...her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Ю Bewildered and alone, A heart with English instinct fraught He yet can call his own. Ay, tear his... | |
 | Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill - 1900 - 294 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 ; A drunken private of the Bufis, Who never looked before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador... | |
 | 1901 - 548 páginas
...That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we far away on the billow. (2) Parse — A heart, with English instinct fraught, He yet can call his own. (3) Correct the lollowing sentences, giving your reasons: Whom do you think that he is? Each of you... | |
 | 1902 - 848 páginas
...of the Buffs," who was killed because he- would not perform the kotow to the Chinese:— Last night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed and swore,...Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. One cannot read those lines without teeling first that they are true poetry, and secondly that war... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry - 1903 - 572 páginas
...before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, i He stands in Elgin 's place, Ambassador from Britain 's crown, And type of all 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... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 614 páginas
...head, and his body thrown upon a dunghill/' — China Correspondent of the London Times.] LAST night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore;...reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, * The " Buffs " are the East Kent Regiment. A heart, with English instinct fraught, He yet can call... | |
 | 1904 - 562 páginas
...head, and his body thrown upon a dunghill.'' — China Correspondent of tin' London Times.] LAST night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore; A drunken private of the Buffs, Who never looked hefore. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place. Ambassador from Britain's crown.... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 344 páginas
...fabulal *So 1855. Robert Browning. THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS OR, THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN CHINA Last night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore...Ambassador from Britain's crown, And type of all her race. 8 Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, A heart, with English instinct fraught,... | |
 | 1908 - 228 páginas
...Freedom shrieked — as Kosciusko fell! THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS. SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE. Last night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore ; A drunken private of the Buffs, Who never l«oked before. To-day, beneath the foeman's frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 páginas
...thrown on a dunghill.' — The Times (An incident in the China War, which ended in 1860). Last night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore,...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... | |
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