A Kipling PrimerBrown, 1899 - 219 páginas |
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... army , and studied rural America at Musquash on the Monongahela . The Pioneer gives us the results of his impressions : the most bitterly satiric picture of American society which the world had seen since the publication of Dickens ...
... army , and studied rural America at Musquash on the Monongahela . The Pioneer gives us the results of his impressions : the most bitterly satiric picture of American society which the world had seen since the publication of Dickens ...
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... army , of politics . Mr. Kipling is the poet of all this and of how much beside ! In The Seven Seas he writes of the British empire , of the English soldier , of the American spirit , of the three - volume novel , of the sea fight ...
... army , of politics . Mr. Kipling is the poet of all this and of how much beside ! In The Seven Seas he writes of the British empire , of the English soldier , of the American spirit , of the three - volume novel , of the sea fight ...
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... army is at last completely realized . In the prose tales of Mr. Kipling's second period one sees not only surer mastery of form and the sloughing off of mannerisms ; even more apparent is the growth in sympathy . There is not a page in ...
... army is at last completely realized . In the prose tales of Mr. Kipling's second period one sees not only surer mastery of form and the sloughing off of mannerisms ; even more apparent is the growth in sympathy . There is not a page in ...
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... ARMY AGAIN . Gosse . ( The Seven Seas . ) A British soldier who has seen several years ' service re- turns after a time to the army , professing to be as ignorant of things military as any new recruit , but he fails to deceive the ...
... ARMY AGAIN . Gosse . ( The Seven Seas . ) A British soldier who has seen several years ' service re- turns after a time to the army , professing to be as ignorant of things military as any new recruit , but he fails to deceive the ...
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... companion was a girl who re- tained the same personality , though she grew in years . George developed from a visionary boy into an athletic col- - a brushwood pile near the legian and a gallant army officer , but in his 98 A Kipling ...
... companion was a girl who re- tained the same personality , though she grew in years . George developed from a visionary boy into an athletic col- - a brushwood pile near the legian and a gallant army officer , but in his 98 A Kipling ...
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A. H. Wheeler Academy Adams in Fortnightly Allahabad American army artist Athenæum Balestier Banjo Barrack-Room Ballads Black and White Book Buyer British Captains Courageous clever Courting of Dinah Critic Day's Deodars Departmental Ditties Dinah Shadd Edinburgh Review Edmund Gosse elephant England English force Francis Adams Gadsby girl Gosse Gray paper Gunga Gunga Din Hauksbee human humor India Indian Railway Indian Railway Library Inventions July latter Learoyd Life's Handicap Light that Failed Lionel Johnson literary literature living London Macmillan man's March master McClure's Magazine Mowgli Mulvaney native Naulahka never officer Ortheris Outward Bound edition Phantom Rickshaw Plain poem poet poetry prose rescue Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling's satiric Saturday Review Sea to Sea Second Jungle Book Seven Seas sketch Soldiers Three song Spectator spirit Stalky tale things tion verse volume Wee Willie Winkie wife woman women words writes York young
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Página 92 - Seat ; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth.
Página 184 - A FOOL there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I !) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair (Even as you and I...
Página 44 - 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 40 - They builded a tower to shiver the sky and wrench the stars apart, Till the Devil grunted behind the bricks: "It's striking, but is it Art?
Página 135 - 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 54 - The depth and dream of my desire, The bitter paths wherein I stray, Thou knowest Who hast made the Fire, Thou knowest Who hast made the Clay. One stone the more swings to her place In that dread Temple of Thy worth — It is enough that through Thy grace I saw naught common on Thy earth.
Página 159 - Said our Lady of the Snows. A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Throne sent word to a Throne: " Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own. The gates are mine to open, As the gates are mine to close, And I abide by my Mother's House,
Página 35 - Go to your work and be strong, halting not in your ways, Baulking the end half-won for an instant dole of praise. Stand to your work and be wise — certain of sword and pen, Who are neither children nor Gods, but men in a world of men ! THE FIRST CHANTEY.
Página 58 - THEE for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining, Thee in thy panoply, thy measur'd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive, Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel, Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides, Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance, Thy great protruding head-light fix'd in front, Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate...
Página 47 - You have to supply me with men-servants and maid-servants," — here he smacked his lips, — " and the peculiar treasure of kings. Meantime I'll get clothes and boots, and presently I will return and trample on you.