The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, Količina 13C. Scribner's Sons, 1895 |
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admiration adventure Allan Water Author of Beltraffio beautiful begin better character child colour d'Artagnan David Hume death delight Dhu Heartach English eyes face fact fall Falstaff fancy feel fellow friends garden Greenville Guy Mannering hand happy hear heart honour hope hour human humour John Todd kind knew labours least light lives look man's marriage marry matter MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS memory ment mind moral nature never night novel once ourselves passion perhaps person play pleasure portraits reader remember ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON romance scene Scotch Scotland seems sense Shakespeare Skelt Skerryvore smiling sort speak spirit story strange sure talk tell thing Thomas Stevenson thought tion touch true truth vanity Vicomte de Bragelonne virtue walk whole women wonder words young youth
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Stran 110 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Stran 155 - I had brought with me as a bon bouche to crown the evening with. It was my birthday, and I had for the first time come from...
Stran 64 - ... stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Stran 209 - ALL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read, or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note down the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I...
Stran 72 - ... excellent purpose. Might not the student afford some Hebrew roots, and the business man some of his half-crowns, for a share of the idler's knowledge of life at large, and Art of Living ? Nay, and the idler has another and more important quality than these. I mean his wisdom. He who has much looked on at the childish satisfaction of other people in their hobbies, will regard his own with only a very ironical indulgence. He will not be heard among the dogmatists. He will have a great and cool...
Stran 100 - Omar Khayyam to Thomas Carlyle or Walt Whitman, is but an attempt to look upon the human state with such largeness of view as shall enable us to rise from the consideration of living to the Definition of Life.
Stran 212 - Perhaps I hear some one cry out : But this is not the way to be original ! It is not ; nor is there any way but to be born so. Nor yet, if you are born original, is there anything in this training that shall clip the wings of your originality.
Stran 130 - A government in every country should be just like a corporation ; and in this country, it is made up of the landed interest, which alone has a right to be represented...
Stran 210 - ... some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful and I knew it; and...
Stran 17 - Shakespeare, conduct an army like Hannibal, or distinguish myself like Marcus Aurelius in the paths of virtue; and yet I have my by-days, hope prompting, when I am very ready to believe that I shall combine all these various excellences in my own person, and go marching down to posterity with divine honours. There is nothing so monstrous but we can believe it of ourselves. About ourselves, about our aspirations and delinquencies, we have dwelt by choice in a delicious vagueness from our boyhood up....