 | American essays - 1925 - 1116 pages
...one another by way of cause and effect. Thus Kipling, referring to the American, speaks of the spirit That bids him flout the law he makes, That bids him make the law he flouts — as if the American must be a perverse man indeed, since he greatly desires to make a law and at... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Sea poetry - 1896 - 270 pages
...ancient humour saves him whole — The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him...slough of his despond But dims the goal of his desire ; American. 125 Inopportune, shrill-accented, The acrid Asiatic mirth That leaves him careless 'mid... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 416 pages
...ancient humour saves him whole — The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul ; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him...drumming guns that — have no doubts; That checks him foolish-hot and fond, That chuckles through his deepest ire, That gilds the slough of his despond But... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 404 pages
...ancient humour saves him whole — The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul ; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him...drumming guns that — have no doubts; That checks him foolish-hot and fond, That chuckles through his deepest ire, That gilds the slough of his despond But... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Sea poetry - 1897 - 376 pages
...ancient humour saves him whole — The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him...he wakes The drumming guns that — have no doubts; The Seven Seas. 1 1 That checks him foolish-hot and fond, That chuckles through his deepest ire, That... | |
 | John St. Loe Strachey - Puritans - 1897 - 356 pages
...American humour. This quality is the predominant partner in the American character — is the quality That checks him foolish — hot and fond ; That chuckles...deepest ire ; That gilds the slough of his despond, And dims the goal of his desire. This note of gladness in the American character was very cleverly... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1898 - 400 pages
...ancient humour saves him whole — The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him...drumming guns that — have no doubts; That checks him foolish-hot and fond, That chuckles through his deepest ire, That gilds the slough of his despond But... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 226 pages
...ancient humour saves him whole — The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him...slough of his despond But dims the goal of his desire; Qln American. 125 Inopportune, shrill-accented, The acrid Asiatic mirth That leaves him careless 'mid... | |
 | William J. Peddicord - 1900 - 214 pages
...ancient humor saves him whole — The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him...That checks him foolish hot and fond, That chuckles thrush his deepest Ire, That gilds the slough of his despond, But dims the goal of his desire." Such... | |
 | William Fiddian Reddaway - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 466 pages
...calculation became agony and the only remedy was action. Now, as in his earlier adventure, " pressed with many doubts, he wakes the drumming guns that have no doubts." That a mere Prussian minister should combat his plans seemed to him little short of lese-majestt. Nor could... | |
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That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, he wakes The drumming guns that — have no doubts... 
