 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...  The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... - Page 3721862Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...below ; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been : But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first...Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth : While man,... | |
 | John Stuart Skinner - Dogs - 1845 - 282 pages
...the water; for he has often to make his way through the ice. Such is the personnel of Leo — a dog " Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone." Many anecdotes might be related in proof of his reasoning powers ; but we have room only to add, in... | |
 | John Palgrave Simpson - 1846 - 938 pages
...element of water moistens the earth ; But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. WEBSTER. But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first...Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd dies — BYRON. UPON the outskirts of the crowd a tumult had arisen. A rumour passed from... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1846 - 808 pages
...When all is done, upon the tomb is seen Not what he toos, but what he should have been : But THE POOA DOG, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome,...Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held, on earth. Ye ! who, perchance,... | |
 | H. D. Richardson - Dogs - 1847 - 154 pages
...with the following lines from Lord Byron's beautiful epitaph on his favourite " Boatswain" : — " The poor dog ! in life the firmest friend, The first...labours, fights, lives, breathes, for him alone." The true breed is about twenty-six inches in height at the shoulder. THE LABRADOR DOG. This is a much... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...below ; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been : But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first...Whose honest heart is still his master's own, ; Who labors, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonored falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in... | |
 | H D. Richardson - 1851 - 152 pages
...with the following lines from Lord Byron's beautiful epitaph on his favourite " Boatswain :" — " The poor dog ! in life the firmest friend, The first...Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone." The true Newfoundland breed is about twenty-six inches in height at the shoulder. THE LABRADOR DOG.... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1851 - 570 pages
...guide when I can help it. The only companion I li li' on a roving excursion is a faithful and attached dog.. In life the firmest friend The first to welcome, foremost to defend — with whom you feel perfectly unrestrained, and whose sagacity is onfy equalled by his devoted attachment.... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...below; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been: But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first...Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls , unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth : While man,... | |
 | England - 1853 - 428 pages
...tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been : But the poor dog, in life the warmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend,...master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for his alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth :... | |
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