Robert Louis StevensonE. Arnold, 1895 - 79 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 15
... paint or in words to the keeper of a booth at the world's fair , dependent for his bread on his success in amusing others . In his volume of poems he almost apolo- gises for his excellence in literature : ' Say not of me , that weakly I ...
... paint or in words to the keeper of a booth at the world's fair , dependent for his bread on his success in amusing others . In his volume of poems he almost apolo- gises for his excellence in literature : ' Say not of me , that weakly I ...
الصفحة 17
... paint , an easel picture . Stevenson is best where he shows most restraint , and his peculiarly rich fancy , which ran riot at the suggestion of every passing whim , gave him , what many a modern writer sadly lacks , plenty to re ...
... paint , an easel picture . Stevenson is best where he shows most restraint , and his peculiarly rich fancy , which ran riot at the suggestion of every passing whim , gave him , what many a modern writer sadly lacks , plenty to re ...
الصفحة 46
... proper , and of the essay or homily , just as they are out of the reach of sculpture and painting . Now , it is precisely in these effects that the chief excellence of romance resides ; it was the discovery 46 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
... proper , and of the essay or homily , just as they are out of the reach of sculpture and painting . Now , it is precisely in these effects that the chief excellence of romance resides ; it was the discovery 46 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
الصفحة 53
... painted nor moralised . It makes its most irresistible appeal neither to the eye that searches for form and colour , nor to the reason that seeks for abstract truth , but to the blood , to all that dim instinct of danger , mys- tery ...
... painted nor moralised . It makes its most irresistible appeal neither to the eye that searches for form and colour , nor to the reason that seeks for abstract truth , but to the blood , to all that dim instinct of danger , mys- tery ...
الصفحة 67
... paints ; he does not attempt to analyse the complexity of its elements , but boldly projects into it certain principles , and works from those . It has often been said of Scott that he could not draw a lady who was young and beautiful ...
... paints ; he does not attempt to analyse the complexity of its elements , but boldly projects into it certain principles , and works from those . It has often been said of Scott that he could not draw a lady who was young and beautiful ...
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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,...