...him taken care of as a brave and faithful public servant. Byron thus apostrophises this animal : " The poor dog ! in life the firmest friend — The...Whose honest heart is still his master's own ; Who labors, fights, lives, breathes for him alone." Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd, acknowledges that he "...

...him taken ojirc of as a brave and faithful public servant. Byron thns apostrophises this animal : " The poor dog! in life the firmest friend — The first to welcome, foremost to defend ; Whose honest brart is still his master's own ; Who laliors, fights, lives, breathes for him atone." Hogg, the Ettrick...

...in reading them can doubt that the poet's words were true ?-— " When all is done, upon the grave is seen Not what he was, but what he should have been." It is intended to divide this work into two parts, of which this is the first, treating principally...

...away." Upon another panel, the canine mausoleum at Newstead, and the epitaph to Byron's " Boatswain," " But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The...alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth." On a third panel might be Argus, the favourite of Ulysses, and the return of that monarch, disguised...

...honour which they paid to the memory of the dead. CHAPTER XXVI " But the poor dog, in life the dearest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend,...Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonoured falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he had on earth." Byron. ' WHEN...

...by birth, • The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below ; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been." The mercantile precision with which the balance of profit and loss is struck on the Oxendens' tomb...

...processes. I hope you will 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....

...we are writing about, can altogether compensate for the loss of that rough savage Kootch —that . " Poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend ; Whose honest heart was still his master's own . Who labour'd, fought, breath'd, lived for him alone.'* Besides the Asiatics...

...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,...Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone ; " and truly indeed may he be called " The rich man's guardian, and ttte poor man's friend." " His...

...upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhaustti the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below ; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what...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...