The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 1Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911 - Authors, Scottish |
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, to His Family and Friends; Vol I Robert Louis Stevenson No preview available - 2008 |
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17 Heriot Row affectionate Amateur Emigrant amusing beautiful blue Bough CHARLES BAXTER CHURCHILL BABINGTON cold Cornhill course delightful devil Edinburgh essay eyes faithful friend father feel French Friday garden glad grey hand happy head hear heard heart hills hope humour John Knox last night letter live look Lord Madame Menton Monday morning mother never nice perhaps pleasant pleasure poor pretty R. L. STEVENSON rain Roads ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON round Russian Saturday Scotland seems SIDNEY COLVIN SITWELL SITWELL R. L. S. sleep sort spirit STEVENSON TO SIDNEY story street Sunday sunshine Swanston table d'hôte talk tell thing THOMAS STEVENSON thought to-day to-night trees Tuesday verses Victor Hugo W. E. HENLEY walk Walt Whitman weather whole Wick wind wish wonderful word write yesterday
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Page 329 - I won the toss, sir, and Hades went off once more discomfited. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that I have a friendly game with that gentleman.
Page 83 - Thou fliest thy vocal vale, An annual guest in other lands, Another Spring to hail. *' Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year ! " O could I fly, I'd fly with thee ! We'd make on joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the Spring.
Page 6 - RESPECTED PATERNAL RELATIVE, — I write to make a request of the most moderate nature. Every year I have cost you an enormous — nay, elephantine — sum of money for drugs and physician's fees, and the most expensive time of the twelve months was March. But this year the biting Oriental blasts, the howling tempests, and the general ailments of the human race have been successfully braved by yours truly. Does not this deserve remuneration ? I appeal to your charity, I appeal to your generosity,...
Page 60 - I believe as much as they do, only generally in the inverse ratio : I am, I think, as honest as they can be in what I hold. I have not come hastily to my views. I reserve (as I told them) many points until I acquire fuller information, and do not think I am thus justly to be called
Page 5 - Ma grande gatteaux est arrive il leve 12 livres et demi le prix etait 17 shillings. Sur la soiree de Monseigneur Faux il y etait quelques belles feux d'artifice. Mais les polissons entrent dans notre champ et nos feux d'artifice et handkerchiefs disappeared quickly, but we charged them out of the field. Je suis presque driven mad par une bruit terrible tous les garcons kik up comme grand un bruit qu'il est possible. I hope you will find your house at Mentone nice. I have been obliged to stop from...
Page 195 - And think, if one could love a woman like that once, see her once grow pale with passion, and once wring your lips out upon hers, would it not be a small thing to die?
Page 282 - Exit Muse, hurried by child's games. . . . Have at you again, being now well through Indiana. In America you eat better than anywhere else : fact, The food is heavenly. No man is any use until he has dared everything ; I feel just now as if I had, and so might become a man. " If ye have faith like a grain of mustard seed.
Page 207 - It was very sad to see him there in a little room with two beds, and a couple of sick children in the other bed; a girl came in to visit the children, and played dominoes on the counterpane with them; the gas flared and crackled, the fire burned in a dull, economical way; Stephen and I sat on a couple of chairs, and the poor fellow sat up in his bed with his hair and beard all tangled, and talked as cheerfully as if he had been in a king's palace, or the great King's palace of the blue air.
Page 316 - I am now engaged to be married to the woman whom I have loved for three years and a half. I do not yet know when the marriage can come off; for there are many reasons for delay. But as few people before marriage have known each other so long or made more trials of each other's tenderness and constancy, I permit myself to hope some quiet at the end of all. At least I will boast myself so far; I do not think many wives are better loved than mine will be.
Page 258 - I have written letters to-day that it hurts me to write, and I fear it will hurt others to receive; I am lonely and sick and out of heart. Well, I still hope; I still believe; I still see the good in the inch, and cling to it. It is not much, perhaps, but it is always something.