A Kipling PrimerBrown, 1899 - 219 páginas |
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... humor , was , with- out exception , the most delightful companion I had ever met . " " 1 Rudyard's mother was a Miss Alice Macdonald , daughter of the Methodist preacher at Endon , Staf- fordshire , and a young woman of great beauty ...
... humor , was , with- out exception , the most delightful companion I had ever met . " " 1 Rudyard's mother was a Miss Alice Macdonald , daughter of the Methodist preacher at Endon , Staf- fordshire , and a young woman of great beauty ...
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... humor , which found vent in every detail of our day's work together ; and the chance visitor to the editor's office must often have carried away very erroneous notions of the amount of work which was being done when he found us in the ...
... humor , which found vent in every detail of our day's work together ; and the chance visitor to the editor's office must often have carried away very erroneous notions of the amount of work which was being done when he found us in the ...
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... humorous light which shone behind his spectacles , and in ten minutes he fell into his natural place as the most striking member of a remarkably clever and charm- ing family . " A reporter for the London World described Mr. Kipling in ...
... humorous light which shone behind his spectacles , and in ten minutes he fell into his natural place as the most striking member of a remarkably clever and charm- ing family . " A reporter for the London World described Mr. Kipling in ...
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... humor , and style for two hundred and thirty days and nights ; and his book was a Book . He had his vast special knowl- edge with him , so to speak ; but the spirit , the woven- in human touch , the poetry and the power of the output ...
... humor , and style for two hundred and thirty days and nights ; and his book was a Book . He had his vast special knowl- edge with him , so to speak ; but the spirit , the woven- in human touch , the poetry and the power of the output ...
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... humorous and sailor yarns , studies in native Indian life , sporting tales , and society dialogues . He writes fluently in every dialect under heaven . While his stories of - India are mainly concerned with four classes , British ...
... humorous and sailor yarns , studies in native Indian life , sporting tales , and society dialogues . He writes fluently in every dialect under heaven . While his stories of - India are mainly concerned with four classes , British ...
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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.