Works: From sea to sea: American notes. City f dreadful night. Among the railway folk. The Giridih coal-fields. The Kipling index, being a guide to the authorized American trade edition of Rudyard Kipling's worksDoubleday, Page, 1907 |
Términos y frases comunes
American Babu beautiful Bengal Book of Mormon boys Calcutta California called captain Chowringhi coal Company darkness dead earth engine England English Englishman eyes fire Firehole River fish Gentile geysers Giridih half hand head heart hills horses Howrah Station Hugli hundred feet India Jamalpur lady from Chicago land laugh live look maiden Mark Twain miles minutes Monghyr Mormon native never night old lady once pines Police polygamy Portland Punjabi railway river Riverside Geyser road roaring roof round Rudyard Kipling rupees Sahib salmon seems ship shouted Sir Steuart Bayley sitting smoke sort stand steamer stream streets talk tell Théophile Gautier There's things thousand told town train turned Vancouver verses walk woman Yellowstone Yellowstone River young
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Página 233 - I BUILT my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, " O Soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is well.
Página 21 - WHEN Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it — lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew!
Página 21 - Ay, because the sea's the street there ; and 'tis arched by ... what you call . . . Shylock's bridge with houses on it, where they kept the carnival ! I was never out of England — it's as if I saw it all ! Did young people take their pleasure when the sea was warm in May?
Página 223 - And since he cannot spend and use aright The little time here given him in trust, But wasteth it in weary undelight Of foolish toil and trouble, strife and lust He naturally claimeth to inherit The everlasting Future, that his merit Ma"y have full scope ; as surely is most just.
Página 139 - I HAVE struck a city — a real city — and they call it Chicago. The other places do not count. San Francisco was a pleasure-resort as well as a city, and Salt Lake was a phenomenon. This place is the first American city I have encountered. It holds rather more than a million people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Página 102 - ... time. So far below that no sound of its strife could reach us, the Yellowstone River ran — a fingerwide strip of jade-green. The sunlight took those wondrous walls and gave fresh hues to those that nature had already laid there. Once I saw the dawn break over a lake in Rajputana and the sun set over the Oodey Sagar amid a circle of Holman Hunt hills. This time I was watching both performances going on below me — upside down, you understand — and the colours were real! The canon was burning...
Página 120 - LET there be no misunderstanding about the matter. I love this People, and if any contemptuous criticism has to be done, I will do it myself. My heart has gone out to them beyond all other peoples; and for the life of me I cannot tell why. They are bleeding-raw at the edges, almost more conceited than the English, vulgar with a massive vulgarity which is as though the Pyramids were coated with Christmas-cake sugar-works.
Página 155 - But the moving-on is nearly finished and the grabbing must stop, and then the Federal Government will have to establish a Woods and Forests Department the like of which was never seen in the world before. And all the people who have been accustomed to hack, mangle, and burn timber as they please will object, with shots and protestations, to this infringement of their rights.
Página 121 - Teuton feet that can walk forever; and he will wave long, thin, bony Yankee hands with the big blue veins on the wrist, from one end of the earth to the other. He'll be the finest writer, poet, and dramatist, 'specially dramatist, that the world as it recollects itself has ever seen. By virtue of his Jew Blood...
Página 139 - Gate. 0 lion's whelp ! that hidest fast In jungle growth of spire and mast, 1 know thy cunning and thy greed, Thy hard high lust and wilful deed, And all thy glory loves to tell Of specious gifts material.