 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2006 - 374 páginas
...Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats. In men, because they load and fire, 29 And know the art of cutting throats? *** Ah, gentle,...wrack, How kings and heroes rise and fall; Look yonder, 1 in his coffin black, There lies the greatest of them all! To pluck him down, and keep him up, Died... | |
 | 1921 - 426 páginas
...his boots That hides the march of men from us, and asks, Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats — In men, because they load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats? Lowell, in the Biglow Papers, declares, "Ez for war, I call it murder." Indeed in the twenty years... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 362 páginas
...all God's peaceful people made To such as him subservient? Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats — In men, because they load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats? From "The Snd of the Tlay" THE play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling, to the prompter's bell:... | |
 | 1910 - 784 páginas
...in the appendix to his stirring Chronicle of the Drum: "Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats, In men because they load and fire And know the art of cutting throats?" This extraordinary mental attitude assumed by certain men who, like Villon and Thackeray have never... | |
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... in foremost rank: You wonder at his cap of hair ; You hear his sabre's cursed clank, His spurs are jingling everywhere. Go to ! I hate him and his trade. Who bade us so to cringe and bend, And all God's peaceful people made To such as him subservient... 
