The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 6Davos Press, 1906 |
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admiration Alfred Austin Allan Water beautiful better Birkenhead cable Cagliari character child Claygate colour d'Artagnan death delight Edinburgh Elba English eyes face fall Falstaff fancy feel fellow Fleeming Fleeming Jenkin Fleeming's friends garden gutta-percha Guy Mannering hand happy hear heart honour hope hour human humour interest Jenkin knew lady least live look man's marriage married matter memory mind moral morning nature never night Norderney Northiam novel once pass passion perhaps person play pleasure portraits Robert Christison romance scene Scotch Scotland seems sense Shakespeare ship Skerryvore smiling sort speak spirit story Stowting strange sure talk taste tell thing Thomas Stevenson thought tion true truth Vicomte de Bragelonne virtue walk whole wife women wonder words write young youth
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Página 231 - ... of life. Already an old man, he ventured on his Highland tour; and his heart, bound with triple brass, did not recoil before twenty-seven individual cups of tea. As courage and intelligence are the two qualities best worth a good man's cultivation, so it is the first part of intelligence to recognise our precarious estate in life, and the first part of courage to be not at all abashed before the fact.
Página 201 - It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
Página 233 - ... does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas?
Página 54 - Thy foot he'll not let slide, nor will He slumber that thee keeps. -Behold, he that keeps Israel, He slumbers not, nor sleeps.
Página 239 - 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'.
Página 210 - A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
Página 253 - 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...
Página 30 - 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.
Página 203 - But, Sir, the mind must be employed, and we grow weary when idle." JOHNSON. " That is, Sir, because others being busy, we want company ; but if we were all idle, there would be no growing weary ; we should all entertain one another.
Página 138 - Character to the boy is a sealed book ; for him, a pirate is a beard, a pair of wide trousers and a liberal complement of pistols. The author, for the sake of circumstantiation and because he was himself more or less grown up, admitted character, within certain limits, into his design; but only within certain limits. Had the same puppets figured in a scheme of another sort, they had been drawn to very different purpose ; for in this elementary novel of adventure, the characters need to be presented...