 For Kim did nothing with an immense success. True, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; and he lived in a...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 6081901Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1901 - 774 pages
...True, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch ; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; and lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights, but missionaries and secretaries of charitable... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1902 - 520 pages
...True, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch ; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than...charitable societies could not see the beauty of it. His nickname through the wards was " Little Friend of all the World"; and very often, being lithe and... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Adventure stories - 1901 - 682 pages
...was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; that he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights,...charitable societies could not see the beauty of it. His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the "World'; and very often, being lithe... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English fiction - 1901 - 504 pages
...True, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; that he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights, but missionaries and secretaries of charitable... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1902 - 524 pages
...True, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch ; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than...charitable societies could not see the beauty of it. His nickname through the wards was " Little Friend of all the World"; and very often, being lithe and... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Books - 1912 - 380 pages
...al Raschid, and his whole existence was a continuous "Arabian Nights" tale. But, remarks the author, missionaries and secretaries of charitable societies could not see the beauty of it. The beauty of it, or at least the interest of it, has nevertheless appealed to thousands of readers,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1914 - 400 pages
...True, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than...charitable societies could not see the beauty of it. His nickname through the wards was 'Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and... | |
 | Anne Carroll Moore - Children's literature - 1926 - 304 pages
...True, he knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives stranger than anything Haroun el Raschid dreamed of; he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights. . . . His nickname through... | |
 | Hannah Arendt - Political Science - 1973 - 580 pages
...wonder at "this great and wonderful world" knows that it is hardly an argument against the game when "missionaries and secretaries of charitable societies could not see the beauty of it." Still less, it seems, have those a right to speak who think it "a sin to kiss a white girl's mouth... | |
 | Roger Lancelyn Green - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 440 pages
...accounts, which it were superfluous to specify, that due precedence should be awarded to Mr. Kipling. Kim is in some respects his most ambitious and elaborate...washes away all taint of sin'. Kim forthwith becomes his chela or attendant (the word may or may not be at bottom identical with the Highland gillie), and... | |
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