A Kipling PrimerBrown, 1899 - 219 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 34
Página 14
... woman of great beauty . She was one of three sisters who were noted for their exceptional culture and talents . Both of the others married distinguished English artists , one being the wife of Sir Edward J. Poynter , president of the ...
... woman of great beauty . She was one of three sisters who were noted for their exceptional culture and talents . Both of the others married distinguished English artists , one being the wife of Sir Edward J. Poynter , president of the ...
Página 44
... woman is only a woman , but a good cigar is a smoke . " No plea of deliberate humor excuses such brutal cynicism . Another representative work of this early period is Plain Tales from the Hills . Here we find much the same merits and ...
... woman is only a woman , but a good cigar is a smoke . " No plea of deliberate humor excuses such brutal cynicism . Another representative work of this early period is Plain Tales from the Hills . Here we find much the same merits and ...
Página 80
... woman . From the beginning he told the tale , the I - II's flashing through the records as telegraph - poles fly past the traveller . " 6 Kipling frequently introduces a sort of Homeric simile which suggests the influence of the Iliad ...
... woman . From the beginning he told the tale , the I - II's flashing through the records as telegraph - poles fly past the traveller . " 6 Kipling frequently introduces a sort of Homeric simile which suggests the influence of the Iliad ...
Página 90
... woman . latter " For skilful presentment in a few bold strokes of a strange and moving scene , it would be hard to beat the escape from the flooded mine in At Twenty - two , ' or the fanatical riot of On the City Wall . ' The former ...
... woman . latter " For skilful presentment in a few bold strokes of a strange and moving scene , it would be hard to beat the escape from the flooded mine in At Twenty - two , ' or the fanatical riot of On the City Wall . ' The former ...
Página 91
... woman , who has some affection for the little girl , but hates the boy , Punch , and subjects him to a series of petty tor- tures professedly designed for the good of his soul . His childish exaggerations pronounced to be lies , he is ...
... woman , who has some affection for the little girl , but hates the boy , Punch , and subjects him to a series of petty tor- tures professedly designed for the good of his soul . His childish exaggerations pronounced to be lies , he is ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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.