A Kipling PrimerBrown, 1899 - 219 páginas |
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... leaving the potteries he worked for a time in a sculptor's studio , and finally received an appointment on the staff of the executive art department of the South Kensington Museum . In 1865 he was appointed Professor of Architectural ...
... leaving the potteries he worked for a time in a sculptor's studio , and finally received an appointment on the staff of the executive art department of the South Kensington Museum . In 1865 he was appointed Professor of Architectural ...
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... leave , of the picturesque veteran , or of a sort of sentimentalized man - in - the - ranks , con- ceived either as lover or as simon - pure hero , fiction gives us many examples . But the " snoring Bar- rack - room , " cholera scourge ...
... leave , of the picturesque veteran , or of a sort of sentimentalized man - in - the - ranks , con- ceived either as lover or as simon - pure hero , fiction gives us many examples . But the " snoring Bar- rack - room , " cholera scourge ...
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... leave the day's work to others , his usual tolerance deserts him and he descends into fiercest caricature . When he describes children he is apt to make them monsters of precocity . In order to in- terest him they must bring things to ...
... leave the day's work to others , his usual tolerance deserts him and he descends into fiercest caricature . When he describes children he is apt to make them monsters of precocity . In order to in- terest him they must bring things to ...
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... leaves his swinging ballad measures , and sets out in quest of variety , is almost unrivalled . No matter how intricate the problem he sets himself , he is certain to solve it . " The Song of the Banjo " is an instance in point . It ...
... leaves his swinging ballad measures , and sets out in quest of variety , is almost unrivalled . No matter how intricate the problem he sets himself , he is certain to solve it . " The Song of the Banjo " is an instance in point . It ...
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... Leaves of Grass applies to the works of Kipling : " This is no book , Who touches this touches a man . " 9 The impression of really holding conversation with the author is due in part to his honesty and earnestness . It is attributable ...
... Leaves of Grass applies to the works of Kipling : " This is no book , Who touches this touches a man . " 9 The impression of really holding conversation with the author is due in part to his honesty and earnestness . It is attributable ...
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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.