 | 1861 - 520 pages
...it's not in my rôle." " You'll write on the Cid's grave," said De Vigne, " as Byron on Boatswain's, In life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend." " Yes, indeed ; and like him I may add: I never had but one, and here he lies. The Cid," said Sabretasche,... | |
 | English essays - 1862 - 860 pages
...Newfoundland dog of the late Earl of Dudley, to whom Lord Byron alludes in the following lines : — "See the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first...Whose honest heart is still his master's own. Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone." It would be idle, however, to assert that Mr. Wyatt's... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1862 - 962 pages
...Newfoundland dog of the late Earl of Dudley, to whom Lord Byrou alludes in the following lines : — "See the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first...welcome, foremost to defend : Whose honest heart is still hie master's own. Who labours, tight*, lives, breathes for him alone." It would be idle, however, to... | |
 | James Moore - Dogs - 1863 - 344 pages
...11 UPPER BERKELEY STREET, PORTMAH SQUARE, Nov. 1, 1863. BYRON'S EPITAPH ON HIS NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. ' The poor dog ! in life the firmest friend, The first...Whose honest heart is still his master's own ; Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone." CONTENTS. Page PREFACE, . .... iii TABLE OF CONTENTS,... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - 432 pages
...November 1808, and engraved on the tablet in commemoration of his gentle and affectionate follower — The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend. One memorial of his boyhood's home at Newstead is still green and flourishing, namely, the oak which... | |
 | Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1863 - 350 pages
...in my role.' ' You'll write on the Cid's grave,' said De Vigne, ' as Byron wrote on Boatswain's, " In life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend." ' ' Yes, indeed ; and like him " I never had but one, and here he lies." The Cid,' said Sabretasche,... | |
 | Henry Coleman Folkard - Fowling - 1864 - 476 pages
...but the October birds are invariably fat and heavy. CHAPTER XVIII. THE WILD-FOWL SHOOTER'S DOG. " Bat the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first...Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone." BYRON. THE wild-fowl shooter, who practises his sport... | |
 | Medicine - 1864 - 780 pages
...Stationers'-hall-court. Pp. 320. MR. MOORE takes for his motto Byron's epitaph on his Newfoundland dog : — " The poor dog ! in life the firmest friend, The first...Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone." In those lines, so truthfully descriptive, all is... | |
 | Ouida - English fiction - 1864 - 456 pages
...all; it's not in my role." "You'll write on the Cid's grave," said De Vigne, "as Byron on Boatswain's, In life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend." "Yes, indeed; and like him I may add: I never had but one, and here he lies. The Cid," said Sabretasche,... | |
 | Henry Astbury Leveson - Hunting - 1865 - 706 pages
...appetites well sharpened by our first day's hunting in the Dehra Boon. [ 398 ] CHAPTER XXIII. " But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first...Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone." BYKON. THE DEHRA BOON AND THE TERAI. Camp struck.... | |
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But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone... 
