 | Education - 1909 - 574 pages
...is best. The children learned the two poems of Robert Louis Stevenson's about the wind, beginning: I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky. And the other beginning: Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long... | |
 | Will David Howe, Elizabeth Virginia Brown, Myron Thomas Pritchard - Readers - 1909 - 134 pages
...the king. "No, No!" said Midas. "I want my little girl. Take back your golden touch." "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy 3—1st as kings." Ella's father has built a new house. It is next door to Beth. To-day they are going... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - Readers - 1909 - 210 pages
...its thread and swings in the air. THE WIND across different skirts push ladies yourself beast strong I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds across the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass — 0 wind, a-blowing... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - Readers - 1909 - 184 pages
...its thread and swings in the air. THE WIND across different skirts push ladies yourself beast strong I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds across the sky ; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass — O wind,... | |
 | William Morse Cole - United States - 1910 - 284 pages
...PHILOSOPHY OF EVERY DAY 206161 PREFACE STEVENSON, in his " Child's Garden of Verses," says: "The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." This is the song of childhood's observation and realization of the obvious good things of life. Browning,... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - Girls - 1910 - 140 pages
...transformed her, within, from a girl with a dreary outlook on life, to one who found that " The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." "Is this the Secret?" she asked Godmother, that night. " Oh, dear, no ! " laughed Godmother, " only... | |
 | Russell W. Belk - Antiques & Collectibles - 1995 - 204 pages
...we come to self-knowledge. Susan M. Pearce TO KAY AND AMY THE RISE OF CONSUMER SOCIETY The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings (Stevenson 1905) ON BEING AS HAPPY AS KINGS Written during the rise of the age of consumerism, Stevenson's... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Paul Maixner - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 562 pages
...following Happy Thought into which is compressed the whole of Mr. Stevenson's gospel: The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. For the better enforcement of this maxim he has written several volumes which are not the least among... | |
 | Leonard B. Meyer - Music - 1996 - 396 pages
...find expression in works such as Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses: "The World is so full of a number of things, / I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." The valuing of diversity is related not only to the prizing of innovation and change, but to the repudiation... | |
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. 
