The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson...Charles Scribner's sons, 1895 |
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admiration adventure Allan Water 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 MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS 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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69. oldal - Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
153. oldal - Give me the clear blue sky over my head and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner — and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy.
73. oldal - Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.
64. oldal - 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!
243. oldal - Thy foot he'll not let slide, nor will He slumber that thee keeps. -Behold, he that keeps Israel, He slumbers not, nor sleeps.
100. oldal - All literature, from Job and Omar Khayyam to Thomas Carlyle or Walt Whitman, is but an attempt to look upon the human state with such largeness of view as shall enable us to rise from the consideration of living to the Definition of Life.
132. oldal - 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...
41. oldal - The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
76. oldal - If he had looked pleased before, he had now to look both pleased and mystified. For my part, I justify this encouragement of smiling rather than tearful children; I do not wish to pay for tears anywhere but upon the stage; but I am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had...
213. oldal - That, like it or not, is the way to learn to write; whether I have profited or not, that is the way. It was so Keats learned, and there was never a finer temperament for literature than Keats...