Quotes from Rudyard Kipling's books, and about them
Kim on King Lear: “strict attention to plays called 'Lear' and 'Julius Caesar,' both much in demand by examiners. 'Lear' was not so full of historical allusions as 'Julius Caesar'”
Kim on Julius Caesar: “Also a man might go far, as he himself had done, by strict attention to plays called Lear and Julius Caesar, both much in demand by examiners.”
Kim on The Excursion: “There were marks to be gained by due attention to Latin and Wordsworth's Excursion (all this was Greek to Kim).”
Puck of Pook's Hill on The Gorilla Hunters: “I--I only thought,' he stammered; 'I've got a book called _The Gorilla Hunters_--it's a continuation of _Coral Island_, sir--and it says there that the gorillas (they're big monkeys, you know) were always chewing iron up.”
Puck of Pook's Hill on The Coral Island: “I--I only thought,' he stammered; 'I've got a book called _The Gorilla Hunters_--it's a continuation of _Coral Island_, sir--and it says there that the gorillas (they're big monkeys, you know) were always chewing iron up.”
Puck of Pook's Hill on The Slave's Dream: “Dan lay in the bows of the _Golden Hind_; Una in the stern, the book of verses open in her lap, was reading from 'The Slave's Dream':”