Robert Louis StevensonE. Arnold, 1895 - 79 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7
... criticism to promise immortality to the authors that it praises , to patronise a writer with the assurance that our great - grandchildren , whose time and tastes are thus frivolously mortgaged , will read his works with delight . But ...
... criticism to promise immortality to the authors that it praises , to patronise a writer with the assurance that our great - grandchildren , whose time and tastes are thus frivolously mortgaged , will read his works with delight . But ...
الصفحة 10
... criticism has standards other than the suffrage ; it is possible enough to say something of the literary quality of a work that appeared yesterday . Stevenson him- self was singularly free from the vanity of fame ; ' the best artist ...
... criticism has standards other than the suffrage ; it is possible enough to say something of the literary quality of a work that appeared yesterday . Stevenson him- self was singularly free from the vanity of fame ; ' the best artist ...
الصفحة 11
... critic who should deny that he has launched masterpieces , but whether he ever launched his masterpiece is an open question . Of the story that he was writing just before his death he is reported to have said that the goodness of it ...
... critic who should deny that he has launched masterpieces , but whether he ever launched his masterpiece is an open question . Of the story that he was writing just before his death he is reported to have said that the goodness of it ...
الصفحة 61
... critic of the murderer , not unfriendly , who lays bare before him his motives and his history . At the close of that wonderful conversation , one of the most brilliant of its author's achievements , Markheim gives himself into the ...
... critic of the murderer , not unfriendly , who lays bare before him his motives and his history . At the close of that wonderful conversation , one of the most brilliant of its author's achievements , Markheim gives himself into the ...
الصفحة 63
... critics above his stories . A novel cannot , of course , be moral as an action is moral ; there is no question in art of police regulations or conformity to established codes , but rather of insight both deep and wide . Polygamy and ...
... critics above his stories . A novel cannot , of course , be moral as an action is moral ; there is no question in art of police regulations or conformity to established codes , but rather of insight both deep and wide . Polygamy and ...
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act or attitude admirable Alan Breck ambition Arblaster artist Black Arrow blind breath candle-holder Captain Nares Catriona character child conversation criticism David Balfour death delight Deserving Poor Dick drama Duke of Gloucester dulness effects emotions of childhood essays face fame fancy Father Damien fool who looked garden genius gifts of imagination grace grave hand happy heart Heaven's top honoured human Hyde Kidnapped light literary literature live loved heroic Markheim Master of Ballantrae masterpiece Matthew Arnold means memory mind's eye murder Murrain narrative Nathaniel Hawthorne nature needle's eye novel pass pathos perhaps phrases piece pirate pity play Prince Otto question rich ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON romance says Scarlet Letter scene Scott sense Shakespeare simple emotions slave spirit sport-impulse Stevenson never Stevenson's letter story streets style subtle sympathy thing thou thought tion Treasure Island UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Victor Hugo wider moral wisdom word-weaving writer
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الصفحة 7 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
الصفحة 26 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride ; I come to shed them at their side.
الصفحة 12 - ... 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?
الصفحة 31 - The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th'assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne: Al this mene I by Love, that my...
الصفحة 45 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
الصفحة 29 - This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
الصفحة 23 - Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown.
الصفحة 61 - Ah! might I, by thy good grace Groping in the windy stair, (Darkness and the breath of space Like loud waters everywhere,) Meeting mine own image there Face to face, Send it from that place to her...
الصفحة 15 - SAY not of me that weakly I declined The labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its hands The sand of granite, and beholding far Along the sounding coast its pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Around the fire addressed its evening hours.
الصفحة 12 - When the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods love die young, I cannot help believing that they had this sort of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake the man, this is to die young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. In the hot-fit of life, a-tiptoe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing,...