...as the keen and genial satire of the master repeats the vaniias i.anitatum, and asks us what we find to admire " In epaulets and scarlet coats — In men...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats " ? The noble ballad thus royally presented, with its wealth of illustrations by Fredericks, Pyle,...

...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...cringe and bend, And all God's peaceful people made To snch as him subservient ? Tell me what find we to admire I n epaulets and scarlet coats. In men, because...

...cap of hair : You hear his sabre's cursed clank, His spurs are jingling everywhere. Go to ! I bate him and his trade : Who bade us so to cringe and bend,...tender lady mine ! The winter wind blows cold and shnll. Come, fill me one more glass of wine, And give the silly fools their will. And what care we...

...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...him subservient ? Tell me what find we to admire In epanlets and scarlet coats, lu men, becanse they load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats?...

...the idiosyncrasy of the teacher. Some masters dislike the whole subject, asking with Thackeray — ' Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats ? ' Others have neither the knowledge nor the skill which such studies require. One thing seems certain...

...impersonation of force and murder, known as Napoleon the Great." THE DEAD NAPOLEON.1 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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...me. Prince Albert and the Queen, God wot, (Be blessings on the glorious pair!) Before us passed—I saw them not, I only saw a cap of hair. Your orthodox...what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats, hi men because they load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats? Ah, gentle, tender lady mine!...

...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...