' "Nay," said he, "let be. Y' have played the devil with me, and let that content you." 'The words...
2011-12-07
Robert Louis Stevenson by Walter Raleigh WHEN a popular writer dies, the question it has become th...
story, in whose mind 'the effect of night, of any flowing water, of lighted cities, of the peep of ...
near to death, who is spoken of as groping already with his hands 'on the face of the IMPASSABLE.' ...
has escaped. Much may be made of this idea.' 'The scene of a story or sketch to be laid within the ...
it a mystic distance; and it is all glitter and shadow. Arthur Seat is like some great sea monster ...
2011-10-12
practice were quite opposed to this. I am sorry I CANNOT find the link in Mr Symons' essay, which w...
long as there are students of English Literature. Surely the portrait of one for whom such a claim ...
seeing that he is run after to do "speakings" of this sort; but to go on, in face of such warning a...
Health I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me: All I ask the heaven above, And the roa...
misgivings Louis hardened his heart, put on his cap, walked out - a refined little figure - approac...
2011-10-09
believe, in which there is too definite a machinery set agoing for horrors for the horrors to be qu...
The transformation of villain into hero, if possible at all, could only be convincingly effected in...
of Robert Louis Stevenson from most of those who knew him. It is a most grave and dreadful accusati...
or nothing of that inspiriting afflatus. He did his painstaking work conscientiously, thoughtfully;...