Robert Louis StevensonE. Arnold, 1895 - 79 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 20
... imagination ; and it seemed to him as if he could walk for ever in that stimulating city atmosphere and sur- rounded by the mystery of four million private lives . He glanced at the houses and marvelled what was passing behind those ...
... imagination ; and it seemed to him as if he could walk for ever in that stimulating city atmosphere and sur- rounded by the mystery of four million private lives . He glanced at the houses and marvelled what was passing behind those ...
الصفحة 21
... imagination , every work of human hands became vocal with possible associations . Buildings positively chat- tered to him ; the little inn at Queensferry , which even for Scott had meant only mutton and currant jelly , with cranberries ...
... imagination , every work of human hands became vocal with possible associations . Buildings positively chat- tered to him ; the little inn at Queensferry , which even for Scott had meant only mutton and currant jelly , with cranberries ...
الصفحة 37
... imaginative slang : · " " Do you catch a bit of white there to the east'ard ? " the captain continued . " That's your house . When old Adams saw it , he took and shook me by the hand . ' I've dropped into a soft thing here , ' says he ...
... imaginative slang : · " " Do you catch a bit of white there to the east'ard ? " the captain continued . " That's your house . When old Adams saw it , he took and shook me by the hand . ' I've dropped into a soft thing here , ' says he ...
الصفحة 46
... imagination worked on the old lines , but it became conscious of its working . And the highest note of these stories is not drama , nor character , but romance . In one of his essays he defines the highest achievement of romance to be ...
... imagination worked on the old lines , but it became conscious of its working . And the highest note of these stories is not drama , nor character , but romance . In one of his essays he defines the highest achievement of romance to be ...
الصفحة 58
... imaginations are plainly generated by the scenery against which they are thrown ; each is in some sort the genius of the place it inhabits . 2 In his search for the treasures of romance , Stevenson adventured freely enough into the ...
... imaginations are plainly generated by the scenery against which they are thrown ; each is in some sort the genius of the place it inhabits . 2 In his search for the treasures of romance , Stevenson adventured freely enough into the ...
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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,...