 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1857 - 342 pages
...panel, the canine mausoleum at Newstead, and the epitaph to Byron's " Boatswain," " 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,... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - 1857 - 344 pages
...find both profit and amusement from my labours. CHAPTER I. ABOUT DOGS IN GENERAL. 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. BTEON.... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1858 - 588 pages
...full of examples of fidelity in the dog than in friends; and Lord Byron characterises him as — " 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...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 to welcome, foremost to defend, Whoso honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unbonour'd... | |
 | John Potter Hamilton - 1860 - 340 pages
...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 to welcome, foremost to defend ; Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes, for him alone,... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...Vigne. " Come, come, put it a little more gracefully. To fight like Britons — to die for our colours. Something a little more poetic and patriotic." " Same...defend." "Yes, indeed; and like him I may add: I never Lad but one, and here he lies. The Cid," said Sabretasche, drawing the dog's ears through his hands... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...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 to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd... | |
 | 1862 - 962 pages
...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 to welcome, foremost to defend : Whose honest heart is still hie master's own. Who labours, tight*, lives, breathes for him alone."... | |
 | Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1863 - 350 pages
...at alt ; it's not 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...foremost to defend." ' ' Yes, indeed ; and like him " I never had but one, and here he lies." The Cid,' said Sabretasche, drawing the dog's ears through his... | |
 | James Moore - 1863 - 344 pages
...BERKELEY STREET, PORTMAH SQUARE, Nov. 1, 1863. BYRON'S EPITAPH ON HIS NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. ' 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."... | |
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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... 
