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James Kenneth Stephen

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Also known as J.K.S., J. K. Stephen

English poet (1859–1892); tutor to Prince Albert Victor

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Works
9

Top works

  • On International Law
  • International Law and International Relations, an Attempt to Ascertain the Best Method of Discussing
  • International Law and International Relations
  • Lapsus Calami and Other Verses.
  • Reflector; Volume 1

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1951-05-27

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Quotes

  • There were two good fellows I used to know.  —How distant it all appears!We played together in football weather,  And messed together for years:Now one of them's wed, and the other's dead  So long that he's hardly missedSave by us, who messed with him years ago:  But we're all in the old School List.
  • Will there never come a seasonWhich shall rid us from the curse?Of a prose which knows no reasonAnd an unmelodious verse:When the world shall cease to wonderAt the genius of an Ass,And a boy's eccentric blunderShall not bring success to pass:When mankind shall be deliveredFrom the clash of magazines,And the inkstand shall be shiveredInto countless smithereens:When there stands a muzzled stripling,Mute, beside a muzzled bore:When the Rudyards cease from KiplingAnd the Haggards Ride no more.
  • In short, if your body or mind  Or your soul or your purse come to grief,You need only get drunk, and you'll find  Complete and immediate relief.
  • To see Good Tennis! What divine joyCan fill our leisure, or our minds employ?Let other people play at other things;The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.
  • I do not want to see that girl again:I did not like her: and I should not mindIf she were done away with, killed, or ploughed.She did not seem to serve a useful end:And certainly she was not beautiful.
  • Republic of the West,  Enlightened, free, sublime,Unquestionably best  Production of our time.

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