Kipling, the Story-writer

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University of California Press, 1918 - 225 Seiten
 

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Seite 187 - During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Seite 158 - Book. See you our stilly woods of oak, And the dread ditch beside? O that was where the Saxons broke On the day that Harold died. See you the windy levels spread About the gates of Rye?
Seite 39 - But marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Seite 73 - Say is it dawn, is it dusk in thy Bower, Thou whom I long for, who longest for me ? Oh be it night...
Seite 160 - the season-tickets mourn, " He never ran to catch his train, But passed with coach and guard and horn — And left the local — late again!" Confound Romance ! . . . And all unseen Romance brought up the nine-fifteen. His hand was on the lever laid, His oil-can soothed the worrying cranks, His whistle waked the snowbound grade, His fog-horn cut the reeking Banks ; By dock and deep and mine and mill The Boy-god reckless laboured still!
Seite 58 - Kentuck bent over the candle-box half curiously, the child turned, and, in a spasm of pain, caught at his groping finger, and held it fast for a moment. Kentuck looked foolish and embarrassed. Something like a blush tried to assert itself in his weather-beaten cheek. "The d— d little cuss!
Seite 98 - eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While it's Tommy this, an
Seite 149 - Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is — Obey ! "A SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNETH" (For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear.
Seite 103 - An' black agin' the settin' sun The Lascar sings, "Hum deckty hail " 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!

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