The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volumen23Scribner, 1905 |
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... pleasant to all comers , but for his own resort chose out a very few houses , mostly those of intimate college companions , into which he could go without constraint , and where his inexhaustible flow of poetic , 10 LETTERS OF R. L. ...
... pleasant to all comers , but for his own resort chose out a very few houses , mostly those of intimate college companions , into which he could go without constraint , and where his inexhaustible flow of poetic , 10 LETTERS OF R. L. ...
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... pleasant old spot , and I remember you there , though still more dearly in your own strange den upon a hill in San Francisco ; and one of the most San Francisco - y parts of San Francisco . Good - bye , my dear fellow , and believe me ...
... pleasant old spot , and I remember you there , though still more dearly in your own strange den upon a hill in San Francisco ; and one of the most San Francisco - y parts of San Francisco . Good - bye , my dear fellow , and believe me ...
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... pleasant thing it is to have just damned the happiness of ( probably ) the only two people who care a damn about you in the world ! What is my life to be at this rate ? What , you rascal ? Answer - I have a pistol at your throat . If ...
... pleasant thing it is to have just damned the happiness of ( probably ) the only two people who care a damn about you in the world ! What is my life to be at this rate ? What , you rascal ? Answer - I have a pistol at your throat . If ...
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... pleasantly meanwhile in the companionship of two kind and accomplished Russian ladies , who took to him warmly , and of their children . Returning to Edinburgh in May , 1874 , he went to live with his parents at Swanston and Edinburgh ...
... pleasantly meanwhile in the companionship of two kind and accomplished Russian ladies , who took to him warmly , and of their children . Returning to Edinburgh in May , 1874 , he went to live with his parents at Swanston and Edinburgh ...
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... pleasant , in the tempered grey daylight of the olive shadows , to see the people picking their way among the stones and the water and the brambles ; the women especially , with the weights poised on their heads and walking all from the ...
... pleasant , in the tempered grey daylight of the olive shadows , to see the people picking their way among the stones and the water and the brambles ; the women especially , with the weights poised on their heads and walking all from the ...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volumen23 Robert Louis Stevenson Vista completa - 1911 |
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17 HERIOT ROW Admiral affectionate Amateur Emigrant believe BONALLIE TOWERS BOURNEMOUTH Braemar Burns called CHALET AM STEIN Chapter cold Cornhill course damned Davos DAVOS-PLATZ DEAR COLVIN DEAR HENLEY delightful Edinburgh EDMUND GOSSE Emigrant essay Fanny father fear feel finished give glad happy hear heart hope HYÈRES HYÈRES-LES-PALMIERS Jerry Abershaw kind letter live look mind Monterey morning never night once paper perhaps PITLOCHRY play pleasant pleasure pretty R. L. S. To EDMUND R. L. S. TO SIDNEY R. L. STEVENSON remember ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SAN FRANCISCO Scotland seems SIDNEY COLVIN Silverado Squatters SITWELL SKERRYVORE SOLITUDE soon spirit Stobo story strange Symonds tell thanks thing THOMAS STEVENSON thought to-day Treasure Island verses W. E. HENLEY walk weather wife winter wish words write written
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Página 190 - 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.
Página 62 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Página 418 - Sargent was down again and painted a portrait of me walking about in my own dining-room, in my own velveteen jacket, and twisting as I go my own moust?che; at one corner a glimpse of my wife, in an Indian dress, and seated in a chair that was once my grandfather's; but since some months goes by the name of Henry James's, for it was there the novelist loved to sit — adds a touch of poesy and comicality. It is, I think, excellent, but is too eccentric to be exhibited.
Página 44 - 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
Página 95 - O, I have such a longing for children of my own; and yet I do not think I could bear it if I had one. I fancy I must feel more like a woman than like a man about that. I sometimes hate the children I see on the street — you know what I mean by hate — wish they were somewhere else, and not there to mock me; and sometimes, again, I don't know how to go by them for the love of them, especially the very wee ones.
Página 182 - ... half-past four, a light beams from the windows of 608 Bush, and he may be observed sometimes engaged in correspondence, sometimes once again plunged in the mysterious rites of the forenoon. About six he returns to the Branch Original, where he once more imbrues himself to the worth of fivepence in coffee and roll. The evening is devoted to writing and reading, and by eleven or halfpast darkness closes over this weird and truculent existence.
Página 207 - They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts, and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert's house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons.
Página 247 - I am now on another lay for the moment, purely owing to Lloyd, this one; but I believe there's more coin in it than in any amount of crawlers: now, see here, "The Sea-Cook or Treasure Island: A Story for Boys.
Página 365 - But the comedy which keeps the beauty and touches the terrors of our life (laughter and tragedy-in-a-goodhumour having kissed), that is the last word of moved representation ; embracing the greatest number of elements of fate and character ; and telling its story, not with the one eye of pity, but with the two of pity and mirth.
Página 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,...