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" 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 130
1861
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Literary Readings: An Introduction to the Study of Literature

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...
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The World's Best Poetry ...

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...
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The World's Best Poetry: National spirit; [introductory essay] The study of ...

1904 - 564 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....
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Little Masterpieces of English Poetry: Idyls and stories in verse

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,...
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The Laurel Speaker: Heroic Classic Verse for Boys

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...
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The Pageant of English Poetry

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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The Vista of English Verse

1911 - 784 páginas
...quaff'd, and swore: A drunken private of the Buffs, Who never look'd before. To-day, beneath the foemaii'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...
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High School Exercises in Grammar

Maude Morrison Frank - 1911 - 216 páginas
...coffin'd, and cold, Lieth Sir Wilfrid the bold. 18 Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewilder'd and alone, A heart with English instinct fraught He yet can call his own. 19 On her cheek an autumn flush Deeply ripen'd;—auch a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like...
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The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, Volumen7

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1913 - 1048 páginas
...his fellow roughs, I 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. Aye, tear his...
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Poems of War and Battle

Vere Henry Collins - 1914 - 198 páginas
...for evermore, That those who run may read. SIR FRANCIS H. DOYLE. THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS LAST night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore...in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, A heart, with English instinct fraught,...
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