Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
Then, as if an inspiration came to him, he said: "It's only a chance, Nort, and a desperate chance at that. But maybe we can do it! Did you ever read Kipling's 'Drums of the Fore and Aft'?" "Sure! But what's that got to do with this?" "A lot. You and I are going to be the 'Drums' and these are going to play the tune," and he tapped his .45. "Come on," he added, motioning to his brother.
And that it has fallen to our generation to watch and rejoice in Rudyard Kipling's work may be counted among those gifts of the gods which bring no Nemesis with them. Another star was it the one that danced when Beatrice was born? was rising about the same time as Rudyard Kipling's.
"Oh, yes," he murmured. "Well ?" "Turn it over," she urged, somewhat breathlessly. He obeyed, and bit his lip angrily. "What of it?" he demanded. "A quotation from Kipling's Recessional a mere commonplace.... Yes; I wrote it." Then his anger suddenly left him. His mind had leaped to the solution of the matter, and the solution appeared to Wesley Elliot as eminently satisfying; it was even amusing.
Stevenson had all of Kipling's fondness for mining men, engineers all that great class of workers, in fact, who harness the elements of earth and air and bend them to man's will and she was very happy on this lonely island with no society outside of her own party but that of the few employed at the mine. Between her and Mr.
But the commonest failing, the one which fills the spiritual hospitals of the other world, and is a temporary bar to the normal happiness of the after-life, is the sin of Tomlinson in Kipling's poem, the commonest of all sins in respectable British circles, the sin of conventionality, of want of conscious effort and development, of a sluggish spirituality, fatted over by a complacent mind and by the comforts of life.
Several of the most important battles in India occurred along the right of way, and they changed the dynasties and religions of the empire, but the plains tell no tales and show no signs of the events they have witnessed. Everybody who has read Kipling's stories will be interested in Umballa, although it is nothing but an important military post and railway junction.
She shivered a little, as if she who seemed devoid of fear quailed at the remembrance of her cell. "You are wondering how I have fallen so low," she said. "Do you remember Kipling's lines "We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung?
He contradicts Kipling's famous lines, which apply to most men Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act. In this instance, I think, Reason is going to win. I feel the whole current of the world setting in that direction.
The revenge, then, taken by Asia, gives a startling insight into the real meaning of Kipling's poem, "The female of the species is more deadly than the male." Long since has the Syrian Orontes flowed into the Tiber and brought along with it the Syrian tongue and manners and cross-stringed harp and harper and exotic timbrels and girls bidden stand for hire at the circus."
But I would not say that even this was well-chosen reading for me here in my bush hermitage any more than is that masterpiece of Kipling's later concentration, An Habitation Enforced, followed by its inimitable Recall: I am the land of their fathers, In me the virtue stays; I will bring back my children After certain days.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking