Rudyard Kipling: A CriticismJohn Lane, 1900 - 163 էջ |
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... literature is concerned , India owes more to Mr. Kipling than he to India . In whatever environment he had hatched out , his voracity for knowledge would no less have eaten up his surroundings - to spin in the end no less brilliant a ...
... literature is concerned , India owes more to Mr. Kipling than he to India . In whatever environment he had hatched out , his voracity for knowledge would no less have eaten up his surroundings - to spin in the end no less brilliant a ...
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... literature - the importance of its sacred books . Mr. Kipling's stories , as subject - matter , are merely the cables of a brilliant journalist describing the long - drawn looting of an ancient civilisation . The cir- cumstances are of ...
... literature - the importance of its sacred books . Mr. Kipling's stories , as subject - matter , are merely the cables of a brilliant journalist describing the long - drawn looting of an ancient civilisation . The cir- cumstances are of ...
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... literature - the vividness , the near- ness , the endearing , or irritating , slang of it . The last minstrel of the bar - parlour ; the fish - liar of the smoking - room ; the flash- light man of American journalism ; the Eng- lish ...
... literature - the vividness , the near- ness , the endearing , or irritating , slang of it . The last minstrel of the bar - parlour ; the fish - liar of the smoking - room ; the flash- light man of American journalism ; the Eng- lish ...
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... literature . William Barnes would have been recognised as a poet of considerable importance had he not chosen to write in Dorsetshire ; and Edwin Waugh was a humourist of genius and a poet of real charm , who has taken the consequences ...
... literature . William Barnes would have been recognised as a poet of considerable importance had he not chosen to write in Dorsetshire ; and Edwin Waugh was a humourist of genius and a poet of real charm , who has taken the consequences ...
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... literature have never existed , nor ever will exist anywhere but in the imagination of novelist and reader . anyone going to deny the reality of Mr. Micawber on any such shallow grounds ? His name comes so readily to one's lips be ...
... literature have never existed , nor ever will exist anywhere but in the imagination of novelist and reader . anyone going to deny the reality of Mr. Micawber on any such shallow grounds ? His name comes so readily to one's lips be ...
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Էջ 17 - You have heard the call of the off-shore wind And the voice of the deep-sea rain ; You have heard the song— how long — how long? Pull out on the trail again!
Էջ 19 - It's clever, but is it Art?' When the flicker of London sun falls faint on the Clubroom's green and gold, The sons of Adam sit them down and scratch with their pens in the mould — They scratch with their pens in the mould of their graves, and the ink and the anguish start, For the Devil mutters behind the leaves: 'It's pretty, but is it Art?
Էջ 17 - British soldier; come you back to Mandalay ! ' Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin from Rangoon to Mandalay?
Էջ 46 - 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 ! 166 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.
Էջ 22 - And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride: He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and the day, And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away. Then up and spoke the Colonel's son that led a troop of the Guides: "Is there never a man of all my men can say where Kamal hides?
Էջ 8 - And I laughed as I drove from the station, but the mirth died out on my lips As I thought of the fools like Pagett who write of their "Eastern trips...
Էջ 159 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Էջ 41 - It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you...
Էջ 33 - I'd been doon that morn to see what ailed the throws, Manholin', on my back — the cranks three inches off my nose. Romance ! Those first-class passengers they like it very well, Printed an' bound in little books ; but why don't poets tell? I 'm sick of all their quirks an...