| Libraries - 1913 - 258 pages
...Baldwin and Miss Wilson have convinced me that we should gratefully say with Stevenson: "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." After encountering almost insurmountable obstacles, the heroine met "Our wonderworker," introduced... | |
| Amil Shah - Science - 1996 - 170 pages
...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER 1 THE DANCE OF LIFE Brunn, February 1865.... | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...Robert Louis Stevenson, Happy Thought (A Child's Garden of Verses, 1885), which runs: The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. For his tutorial class on Modern English Literature in 1917, TSE listed: 'Stevenson as a poet. Read:... | |
| John Hollander - Education - 1997 - 342 pages
...line in his own debunking moral to one of his wonderful, adult fables a for our time ("The world is so full of a number of things, / I'm sure we should all ^ be as happy as kings, and we all know how happy kings are") —and, indeed, this £ is just the point: in an almost Blakean... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...In summer, quite the other way I have to go to bed by day. 11151 1 1 175 A Child's Garden of Verses 1 11 76 A Child's Garden of Verses 'Looking Forward' When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Poetry - 1998 - 328 pages
...that pass And wet with all the showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers. Happy Thought The world is so full of a number of...things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. The Wind I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard... | |
| Anthony D. Marley - 1998 - 188 pages
...Q i Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Metaphors for a Period of Transition DAVID JABLONSKY "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." — Robert Louis Stevenson InA Child's Garden of Ver ses, Robert Louis Stevenson describes this couplet... | |
| Jean Webster - Chinese fiction - 2001 - 376 pages
...ago, but I haven't had a second to finish it. Isn't this a nice thought from Stevenson? The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. It's true, you know. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing... | |
| James Thomas Farrell - Fiction - 1998 - 300 pages
...Illinois Press 1325 South Oak Street Champaign, Illinois 61820-6903 www.press.uillinois.edu The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. —Robert Louis Stevenson No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no... | |
| Anne Waldron Neumann - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 196 pages
...into disuse and are forgotten, they can no longer be evoked, even involuntarily. PREFACE The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses ... was not the entire national culture based on... | |
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