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Kipling's narrative voice contrasts the purported eternal wisdom of these commonplace texts with the fashionable and (in Kipling's view) naïve modern ideas of "the Market-Place", making oblique reference, by way of puns or poetic references to older geological time periods, to Welsh-born Lloyd George and Liberal efforts at disarmament ("the Cambrian measures"), feminism ("the ...
"The Gods of the Copybook Headings" "The Grave of the Hundred Head" "Great-Heart" "The Greek National Anthem" "Gunga Din" "Half-Ballad of Waterval" "Harp Song of the Dane Women" "Helen All Alone" "Heriot's Ford" "The Heritage" "The Holy War" "The Hour of the Angel" "The Houses" "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack" "Hyaenas" "Hymn Before Action"
Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly. Moreover, anyone who starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for Utopia never arrives and 'the gods of the copybook headings', as Kipling put it, always return.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings; Gunga Din; H. Hymn Before Action; I. If— ...
Kipling included the expression in his poem "Gods of the Copybook Headings", and argued that it should be featured in "catechisms" of the Conservative Central Organization; the lesson of the phrase in his version, and of the poem in general, was that "only out of the savings of the thrifty can be made the wage-fund to set other men on the way ...
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
A copybook, or copy book is a book used in education that contains examples of handwriting and blank space for learners to imitate. [1] Typical uses include teaching penmanship and arithmetic to students. A page of a copy book typically starts with a copybook heading: a printed example of what should be copied, such as a single letter or a ...