 | Lewis Ransome Freeman - 1923 - 550 strani
...the fictional possibilities latent in the spectacular adventure, is evidenced by his closing passage. "What a romance his adventures would make! Let Charles...children from play and old men from the chimney corner. But let the novelist for once pity and spare us, and not transform poor White into a walking cyclopedia... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - 1925 - 490 strani
...as the Redskins circled ever nearer and nearer — from that day to this a good story has been able "to hold children from play and old men from the chimney corner." Robert Louis Stevenson, himself a master of story-telling, says: "The desire for knowledge, I had almost... | |
 | Liberty Fund - 1986 - 248 strani
...need be for us to appreciate the timelessness of this phase of human experience because, if they are to hold children from play and old men from the chimney corner, they must depict the past as a drama, with movement, crisis and denouement. It is no accident that... | |
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - 1994 - 568 strani
...the man never bent to this untoward fate. He still went on writing, with gentle Sidney's poet, tales "to hold children from play and old men from the chimney corner," and at length his audience is around him with uplifted ears. We may pardon him, we may welcome him,... | |
 | 1917 - 924 strani
...last word on all things western. The following excerpt affords a fair idea of his estimate of White's story : Indians and trappers have always believed...without parallel in authentic human history." THE GRAND CANYON. 45 There also is much to be found in the narratives already quoted as direct testimony... | |
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... to hold children, from play, and old men from the chimney corner*. 
