 Wo are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be gathering gear, to make our voice audible a moment in the derisive silence of eternity, that we forget that one thing, of which these are but the parts — namely, to live.  The Cornhill Magazine - Stran 685uredili: - 1876Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Homer - 1884 - 500 strani
...serious, and I thank my correspondent for calling attention to it. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: "We are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be...in the derisive silence of eternity, that we forget the one thing of which these are but parts—namely, to live." Too much effort in the business of getting... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 strani
...world for most of us, when we find we can pass the hours without discontent, and be happy thinking. We are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be...to live. We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to anoT fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. And now you are to ask yourself if, when all is done,... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1899 - 312 strani
...world for most of us, when we find we can pass the hours without discontent, and be happy thinking. We are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be...forget that one thing, of which these are but the parts—namely, to live. We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1901 - 72 strani
...the worry, and let ourselves enjoy. "We are in such haste," he says in his essay on Walking Tours, "to be doing, to be writing, to be gathering gear,...— namely, to live. We fall in love, we drink hard, weT uri'to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. And now you are to ask yourself if, when all... | |
 | John Kelman - 1903 - 326 strani
...vitality, that he advocated idling. People who cannot idle miss something of the meaning of life. 'We are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be...derisive silence of eternity, that we forget that one tiling, of which these are but the parts — namely, to live.' To such persons 'something to do ' has... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 316 strani
...for most of us, •when we find we can pass the hours without ; discontent, and be happy thinking. We are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be...thing, of which these are but the parts — namely, to liy^. We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. And now... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1904 - 302 strani
...world for most of us, when we find we can pass the hours without discontent, and be happy thinking. We are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be...forget that one thing, of which these are but the parts—namely, to live. We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1904 - 386 strani
...is in mind, as fresh as a child? Sir John Lubbock. WE are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to make our voice audible a moment in the derisive...of which these are but the parts, namely, to live. After all, it is not they who carry flags, but they who look upon it from a private chamber, who have... | |
 | William Henry Van Benschoten - 1907 - 942 strani
...gear, to make our voices audible for a moment in the derisive silence of eternity." declares Stevenson, "that we forget that one thing of which these are but the parts, namely, to live." "Sound all the stops of life with tuneful pause," urges the great dramatist. And Stevenson again :... | |
 | Edgar Frederick Carritt - 1914 - 332 strani
...Stevenson in his essay on Walking Tours seems to sum up the theory even better than its author had done : " We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon 1 Cf. Plato, Phadrvs, 251, 254. the earth like frightened sheep. And now you are to ask yourself if,... | |
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