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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... seem to people of ordinary literary attain- ments as ridiculous , if not manifestly unfair . We do not say that none of Mr. Kipling's poetry has any merit , far from it . A certain species of merit may be found even in many of his ...
... seem to people of ordinary literary attain- ments as ridiculous , if not manifestly unfair . We do not say that none of Mr. Kipling's poetry has any merit , far from it . A certain species of merit may be found even in many of his ...
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... seems to his devotees destined to stand , but our criticism is the natural conse- quence of thoughtful , earnest ... seem in a measure severe , yet we assure you that when you shall have read both the book and the criticism , and , too ...
... seems to his devotees destined to stand , but our criticism is the natural conse- quence of thoughtful , earnest ... seem in a measure severe , yet we assure you that when you shall have read both the book and the criticism , and , too ...
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... seem , headless kings and princes , dukes and lords ; yeoman and nobleman , drawn and quartered by hundreds ; the ashes of thousands at the stake ; and shaggy , bloody heads on London bridge attest how well the title was earned . But ...
... seem , headless kings and princes , dukes and lords ; yeoman and nobleman , drawn and quartered by hundreds ; the ashes of thousands at the stake ; and shaggy , bloody heads on London bridge attest how well the title was earned . But ...
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... seems like some pessimist , lantern in hand like Diogenes looking for an honest man , some cynic rather than art critic , looking for a mole on the neck of a Gre- cian beauty . And the nauseating stream about re- porters and hotel ...
... seems like some pessimist , lantern in hand like Diogenes looking for an honest man , some cynic rather than art critic , looking for a mole on the neck of a Gre- cian beauty . And the nauseating stream about re- porters and hotel ...
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... seems to forget for the time that he is in a land odious to him , and he gives us a description thrill- ing , interesting , full of little incidents , facetiously told . It may be that being the hero of the occa- sion may have caused ...
... seems to forget for the time that he is in a land odious to him , and he gives us a description thrill- ing , interesting , full of little incidents , facetiously told . It may be that being the hero of the occa- sion may have caused ...
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.