 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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