...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

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...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...

...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...