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 ? Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats, In men because they load and fire, And know the art of... Ballads - Página 16por William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 228 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 878 páginas
...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...scarlet coats — In men, because they load and fire, Aud know the art of cutting throats 1 Ah, gentle, tender lady mine ! The winter wind blows cold and... | |
| Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 328 páginas
...1863. NOTE. — For another selection on Napoleon, see page 279. Tell me what find we to admire 10 In epaulets and scarlet coats, In men, because they...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats ? And what care we for war and wrack, How kings and heroes rise and fall ? 15 Look yonder, in his coffin... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 332 páginas
...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...find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats— Ah, gentle, tender lady mine ! The winter wind blows cold and shrill; Come, fill me one more glass... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 páginas
...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...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats ? WM THACKERAY (The Chronicle of the Drum). 994. VANITAS VANITATUM O VANITY of Vanities ! How wayward... | |
| 1910 - 534 páginas
...had lost, Said, " Really, can't tell, for I rent 'em ! " The Dead Napoleon BY WILLIAM M. THACKERAY. Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats ? And what care we for war and wrack, How kings and heroes rise and fall ? Look yonder ; in his coffin... | |
| Milton Chase Potter - 1917 - 468 páginas
...satisfaction as when he proudly called half the world his own. THE DEAD NAPOLEON Tell me what we find to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats, In men because...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats ? And what care we for war and wrack, How kings and heroes rise and fall ? He captured many thousand... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - 1919 - 248 páginas
...sentiments settled the matter. Even Thackeray, in one of the poems of his leek and salad days, asks : Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats ? In later life he answered the question, satisfactorily enough, in more than one of his novels. But... | |
| John Bruce Glasier - 1920 - 228 páginas
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| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 páginas
...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...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats? WM THACKERAY — The Chronicle of the Drum 213. TO NIGHT MYSTEKIOUS Night! when our first parent knew... | |
| 1925 - 582 páginas
...Imd lost, Said, " Really, can't tell, for I rent 'em ! " The Dead Napoleon BY WILLIAM M. THACKERAY. Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats? And what care we for war and wrack, How kings and heroes rise and fall ? Look yonder ; in his coffin... | |
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