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Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh. Edinburgh : T. and A. CONSTABLE , Printers to Her Majesty THE GREATER PART OF THIS ESSAY WAS GIVEN AS A.
Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh. Edinburgh : T. and A. CONSTABLE , Printers to Her Majesty THE GREATER PART OF THIS ESSAY WAS GIVEN AS A.
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Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh. THE GREATER PART OF THIS ESSAY WAS GIVEN AS A LECTURE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION ON THE 17TH OF MAY 1895 4 * ! ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON WHEN a popular writer.
Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh. THE GREATER PART OF THIS ESSAY WAS GIVEN AS A LECTURE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION ON THE 17TH OF MAY 1895 4 * ! ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON WHEN a popular writer.
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... not cast a pallor on his conviction . Life is of value only because it can be spent , or given ; and the love of God coveted the position , and assumed mortality . If a man treasure and hug his ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 27.
... not cast a pallor on his conviction . Life is of value only because it can be spent , or given ; and the love of God coveted the position , and assumed mortality . If a man treasure and hug his ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 27.
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... given nobly , with ceremony and courtesy . So strong was Stevenson's admiration for heroic graces like these that in the requiem that appears in his poems he speaks of an ordinary death as of a hearty exploit , and draws his figures ...
... given nobly , with ceremony and courtesy . So strong was Stevenson's admiration for heroic graces like these that in the requiem that appears in his poems he speaks of an ordinary death as of a hearty exploit , and draws his figures ...
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... given to dwell on words , that remembered them for years , and brought them out when occasion arose . But the praise of Stevenson's style can , not be exhausted in a description of his use of individual words or his memory of individual ...
... given to dwell on words , that remembered them for years , and brought them out when occasion arose . But the praise of Stevenson's style can , not be exhausted in a description of his use of individual words or his memory of individual ...
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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,...