Rudyard Reviewed: A Review of Rudyard Kipling's "American Notes", "Seven Seas", "Barrack-room Ballads", "Department Ditties", "Other Verses"Press of Marsh Printing Company, 1900 - 202 páginas Essays about the author's perceptions of Kipling's anti- Americanism, coarseness, and lack of originality. |
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... honor of a victor , and beneath a tomb that vies in splendor with that of his renowned conqueror , while his great - hearted benefactor fell at the hands of an assassin in sym- pathy with treason , will , within all human probabil- ity ...
... honor of a victor , and beneath a tomb that vies in splendor with that of his renowned conqueror , while his great - hearted benefactor fell at the hands of an assassin in sym- pathy with treason , will , within all human probabil- ity ...
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... honor to quote him at the head of one of his chapters . After reading both , one is utterly amazed at the gross injustice of our critic or else the hopeless degeneracy of our rural folk . Says the learned historian : " Men worthy to be ...
... honor to quote him at the head of one of his chapters . After reading both , one is utterly amazed at the gross injustice of our critic or else the hopeless degeneracy of our rural folk . Says the learned historian : " Men worthy to be ...
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... honor this " warder of two continents " has won for her country since the " Oregon " made her imper- ishable record at Santiago de Cuba , and the sons of the Golden State have so nobly done their part in laying hands on the Philippines ...
... honor this " warder of two continents " has won for her country since the " Oregon " made her imper- ishable record at Santiago de Cuba , and the sons of the Golden State have so nobly done their part in laying hands on the Philippines ...
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... honor of claiming them for its children . " Mr. Dickens was probably a little hard on his countrymen , who saw , despite many imperfections , the advantages of their adopted country and stood . up for the land of their new home with ...
... honor of claiming them for its children . " Mr. Dickens was probably a little hard on his countrymen , who saw , despite many imperfections , the advantages of their adopted country and stood . up for the land of their new home with ...
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... honor is held in the least regard ; when any man in that Free Country has freedom of opinion , and pre- sumes to think for himself , without humble refer- ence to a censorship , which for its rampant igno- rance and base dishonesty he ...
... honor is held in the least regard ; when any man in that Free Country has freedom of opinion , and pre- sumes to think for himself , without humble refer- ence to a censorship , which for its rampant igno- rance and base dishonesty he ...
Términos y frases comunes
admirers American Notes Anne of Austria armless armory army Barrack-Room Ballads beautiful better blood bloomin British Briton certainly CHAPTER character Charles Dickens civil coarse conceit countrymen criticism DANNY DEEVER Delight Departmental Ditties Dickens disgusting doubtless England English fame feeling Fuzzy-Wuzzy genius Gunga Gunga Din hand hate hatred heart honor humor immortality India Jakko Hill jingle kings Kipling's verses kisses land literary literature Lord Lord Byron low taste McAndrew merit mind mother muse Mussulmen nations nature never originality poem poet poet's poetic poetry popularity praise prejudice princes quote race reader republic Rudyard Kipling satire scenes sentiment Seven Seas Shakespeare Simla songs stanza style sweet thee themes thine things Thou thought thousand tion to-day Tommy Tommy Atkins Tramp Royal tribute vulgar William Shakespeare women wonderful word writers
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Página 179 - A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke ; And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke.
Página 25 - Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
Página 125 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Página 83 - In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
Página 85 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you, to laugh, and leap, and say, you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, And laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper : And other of such vinegar aspect, That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Página 195 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 147 - When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. Now in Injia's sunny clime, Where I used to spend my time A-servin...
Página 169 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boasting as the Gentiles use Or lesser breeds without the law, Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
Página 196 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Página 23 - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral.