 ... 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 ? Tell me what find...  Poems and Ballads, Selected - 23 ページWilliam Makepeace Thackeray 著 - 1902 - 139 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1864 - 998 ページ
...— To such as him subservient? Tell me, what find we to admire In epaulettes and scarlet coats, In men, because they load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats ? The very ballad in which the lines occurred might have supplied the answer. It is called the Chronicle... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1855 - 526 ページ
...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...glass of wine, And give the silly fools their will. VOL. L And what care we for war and wrack, How kings and heroes rise and fall ; Look yonder,* in his... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 ページ
...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...coffin black, There lies the greatest of them all ! * This ballad was written at Paris, at the time of the second funeral of Napoleon. To pluck him down,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 266 ページ
...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...coffin black, There lies the greatest of them all ! * This ballad was written at Paris, at the time of the second funeral of Napoleon. To pluck him down,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 ページ
...To such as him subservient ? " Tell me, what find we to admire In epaulettes and scarlet coats, In men, because they load and fire. And know the art of cutting throats ?" The very ballad in which the lines occurred might have supplied the answer. It is called the Chronicle... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 562 ページ
...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...shrill, Come, fill me one more glass of wine, And what care we for war and wrack, How kings and heroes rise and fall ? Look yonder;* in his coffin black,... | |
 | Life - 1873 - 342 ページ
...fact as when they are in the army. " Ah, say, what find we to admire In epaulettes or scarlet coats In men because they load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats ?" " I am fortunate to meet you," says Claverton, turning round and coming up in his cool, unsurprised... | |
 | 1898 - 642 ページ
...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 ? " * * * These lines were written more than fifty years ago. It is sad to think that, so slight has... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 840 ページ
...and bend. And all God's peaceful people made To such as him subservient ? BALLADS. In men, becanse they load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats...mine ! The winter wind blows cold and shrill, Come, till me one more glass of wine, And give the silly fools their will. And what care we for war and wrack,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 848 ページ
...made To such as him subservient ? Tell me what find we to admire I n epaulets and scarlet coats. In men, because they load and fire, And know the art...mine ! The winter wind blows cold and shrill, Come, till me one more glass of wine, And give the silly fools their will. And what care we for war and wrack,... | |
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