| John Mantle Clapp, John Clapp, Mantle, Edwin A. Kane - 2006 - 661 էջ
...curiosity expressed in Kipling's lines : For to admire and for to see, For to behold this world so wide, It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried. It calls also for interest in the nature of people, so that you look behind the face, the gesture,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1925 - 674 էջ
...seen An' found an' known an' met along. I cannot say the things I feel, And so I sing my evenin' song: For to admire an' for to see, For to be' old this...done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried! L 'ENVOI WHEN Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest... | |
| 1904 - 596 էջ
...Atkins is represented as singing: "For to behold and for to see, For to admire this world so wide — It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried." So it goes — ancient, mediaeval, modern. This "pleasing, anxious being" is ever the theme of men's... | |
| United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942 - 532 էջ
...Lascar sings, "Hum deckty hail" 1 For to admire an for to see, For to be'old this world so wide — It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried! >ee the sergeants pitchin' quoits, I 'ear the women laugh an' talk, spy upon the quarter-deck The orficers... | |
| 1924 - 836 էջ
...strange migratory instinct — For to admire an' for to see, For to be'old this world BO wide — It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried. Be very sure indeed it is not that, rather than art, which propels you from port to port. It is with... | |
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