In the Track of R. L. Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old FranceE.P. Dutton & Company, 1908 - 254 strani |
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In the Track of Robert Louis Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old France John Alexander Hammerton Omejen predogled - 2020 |
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ancient Aubert Bazin Beaucaire beautiful Bleymard bridge building cafés Camisards canal canoe canoeists Carnac castle cathedral Causse century Cevennes chapel CHÂTEAU church Compiègne Daudet donkey Dourbie English Enimie fair feature feet fellow Fête Dieu Florac forest forest of Mormal France French gorges GOUDET grey highway hills hour houses Inland Voyage interest journey Lady landlady Landrecies Langogne Larzac LE BLEYMARD Le Puy little town living look Lozère M'sieu Malène Maubeuge Michel miles Millau Miln Modestine monastery Monastier monks Mont St morning Mount mountain night Noyon NOYON CATHEDRAL Oise Paris passed photograph picture picturesque pleasant Pont de Montvert Pontoise priests Protestant quaint R. L. STEVENSON railway river road rock Roman roof Saint Saint Aubert SAMBRE scenes seemed seen side stands Stevenson stone stood streets Tarascon Tarasque Tarn Tartarin tourist traveller trees valley village visitors walk walls woman women wonderful
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Stran 24 - For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move...
Stran 120 - You may paddle all day long; but it is when you come back at nightfall, and look in at the familiar room, that you find Love or Death awaiting you beside the stove; and the most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Stran 51 - A solemn glee possessed my mind at this gradual and lovely coming in of day. I heard the runnel with delight; I looked round me for something beautiful and unexpected; but the still black pine-trees, the hollow glade, the munching ass, remained unchanged in figure.
Stran 71 - Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone. If you go in a company, or even in pairs, it is no longer a walking tour in anything but name ; it is something else and more in the nature of a picnic. A walking tour should be gone upon alone, because freedom is of the essence...
Stran 93 - ... that takes you in the nostrils like snuff, and carries with it a fine sentiment of open water and tall ships; but the smell of a forest, which comes nearest to this in tonic quality, surpasses it by many degrees in the quality of softness. Again, the smell of the sea has little variety, but the smell of a forest is infinitely changeful ; it varies with the hour of the day, not in strength merely, but in character; and the different sorts of trees, as you go from one zone of the wood to another,...
Stran 71 - A walking tour should be gone upon alone, because freedom is of the essence ; because you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way or that, as the freak takes you ; and because you must have your own pace, and neither trot alongside a champion walker, nor mince in time with a girl.
Stran 174 - Cover yourself with glory!" the Sancho Panza murmurs the qualification, " Cover yourself with flannel !" The glory is everything the imagination regales itself with as a luxury of reputation — the regardelle so prettily described in the last pages of Port Tarascon; the flannel is everything that life demands as a tribute to reality — a gage of self-preservation. The glory reduced to a tangible texture too often turns out to be mere prudent underclothing.
Stran 67 - and it seems at once as if no beauty under the kind heavens, and no society of the wise and good, can repay me for my absence from my country.
Stran 92 - And, surely, of all smells in the world the smell of many trees is the sweetest and most fortifying. The sea has a rude pistolling sort of odor, that takes you in the nostrils like snuff, and carries with it a fine sentiment of open water and tall ships; but the smell of a forest, which comes nearest to this in tonic quality, surpasses it by many degrees in the quality of softness. Again, the smell of the sea has little variety, but the...
Stran 75 - It is certainly easier to smoke with the sheet fastened ; but I had never before weighed a comfortable pipe of tobacco against an obvious risk, and gravely elected for the comfortable pipe. It is a common-place that we cannot answer for ourselves before we have been tried. But it is not so common a reflection, and surely more consoling, that we usually find ourselves a great deal braver and better than we thought.