 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 644 pages
...were its masters. The Crusaders, under its name, spoke of the Arab cities which supplanted it : — " Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old...king in Babylon, And you were a Christian slave." The*site of Memphis, however, was once again to become the seat of empire. Roman Egypt had centred... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English fiction - 1892 - 454 pages
...sword is at his left side, a little above my heart. Follows my seal. 'THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD.' ' Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old...a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave." WE HENLEY. His name was Charlie Hears ; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and he lived... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1897 - 416 pages
...a box of matches will make clear the mystery of Bubbling Well Road. "THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD" "Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old...a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave." WE Htnlej. His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother, who was a widow, and he lived... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1898 - 410 pages
...a box of matches will make clear the mystery of Bubbling Well Road. "THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD" "Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old...a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave." WE Henley. His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother, who was a widow, and he lived... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 444 pages
...sword is at his left side, a little above my heart. Follows my seaL 'THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD.' ' Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old...a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave.' WE HENLEY. His name was Charlie Hears ; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and he lived... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 248 pages
...Superintendent. And there the matter rests. "THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD" "THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD" " Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old...a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave." — IV. E. Henley. HIS name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Fiction - 1899 - 802 pages
...the grating and whispered — '1 am here'" . . . 707 Indian T«l» "THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD" " Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old...a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave." — WE HenUy. HIS name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow, and he... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 444 pages
...box of matches will make clear the mystery of Bubbling Well Road. 103 "THE FINEST STORY IN THE WORLD" "Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grare, I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave." WE Henley. His name was Charlie Mears;... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Authors, Irish - 1901 - 196 pages
...the master of my fate ; I am the captain of my soul." Others with a true touch of romance, as— " Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old...King in Babylon, And you were a Christian slave." And here and there we come across such felicitous phrases as — " In the sand The gold prow-griffin... | |
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Or ever the knightly years were gone, With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon, And you were a Christian slave. 
