Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find private messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude dropped for them in every corner. The British Empire Series - Stran 1821900Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1879 - 360 strani
...the condition of the sick. 1 879.1 [JUNE 2i, The Literary World. BOSTON, JUNE 21, 1879. Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the...dropped for them in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. — RoiiKKT Louis STEVENSON. ME. TEJWYSON AS A YOUTHFUL... | |
| 1879 - 550 strani
...why, despite his charming style, he has not made a more entertaining book. There he says, " Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the...dropped for them in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage." He has written loo much as one friend writes to another,... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 strani
...keeps us worthy of ourselves ; and when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent. Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the...dropped for them in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. Yet though the letter is directed to all, we have an old... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 strani
...They keepf us worthy of ourselves; and when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent. Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the...dropped for them in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. Yet though the letter is directed to all, we have an old... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 384 strani
...They keep us worthy of ourselves; and, when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent. Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the...dropped for them in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. Yet, though the letter is directed to all, we have an old... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 382 strani
...They keep us worthy of ourselves; and, when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent. Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the...dropped for them in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. Yet, though the letter is directed to all, we have an old... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 382 strani
...They keep us worthy of ourselves; and, when we are alone, we are only nearer to the absent. Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the...expressions of gratitude dropped for them in every comer. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage. Yet, though the letter is directed... | |
| Arthur Patchett Martin - 1898 - 60 strani
...or heart of Young New Zealand. When we have urged all that can be said with regard to these colonial poets, it will be found, I think, that Adam Lindsay...Lindsay Gordon appeals, not only as no other colonial verse-writer does, to Australians, but also to those high-spirited and untamable soldiers of fortune... | |
| Albert Lee - 1898 - 310 strani
...BtUfcateB 6n THE AUTHOR Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular teller to the friends of Mm who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they find...private messages, assurances of love, and expressions ef gratitude dropped for them in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the... | |
| Gilbert Watson - 1904 - 358 strani
...Impression, September, 1903 Second Impression, December, 1903 Third Impression, January, 1904 ' Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the...dropped for them in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays the postage.' — ROBERT Louis STEVENSON. M311802 PREFACE Scene : A new... | |
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