The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus puerisque. Memories and portraitsScribner's, 1895 |
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admiration adventure Allan Water Author of Beltraffio beautiful begin better character child colour d'Artagnan David Hume death delight Der Freischütz 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 interest John Todd kind knew labours least light lives look man's marriage marry matter 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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Página 64 - Shelley was a young fool; so are these cock-sparrow revolutionaries. But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. 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. 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!
Página 112 - 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 211 - 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.
Página 132 - 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 109 - O toiling hands of mortals ! O unwearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness ; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Página 347 - Life goes before us, infinite in complication; attended by the most various and surprising meteors; appealing at once to the eye, to the ear, to the mind — the seat of wonder, to the touch — so thrillingly delicate, and to the belly — so imperious when starved. It combines and employs in its manifestation the method and material, not of one art only, but of all the arts. Music is but an arbitrary trifling with a few of life's majestic chords ; painting is but a shadow of its...
Página 17 - 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. No one will have forgotten Tom Sawyer's aspiration : ' ' Ah, if he could only die temporarily ! ' ' Or, perhaps, better still, the inward resolution of the two pirates, that "so long as they remained in that business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.
Página 182 - England; the roofs are steeper-pitched; even a hill farm •will have a massy, square, cold and permanent appearance. English houses, in comparison have the look of cardboard toys, such as a puff might shatter. And to this the Scotchman never becomes used. His eye can never rest consciously on one of these brick houses...
Página 96 - ... swiftness, in leaving people little time to think, have not left them time enough to go dangerously wrong in practice. As a matter of fact, although few things are spoken of with more fearful whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances.
Página 105 - It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.