Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson Contents NOT I, AND OTHER POEMS I. Some like drink II. ...
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heroine will too often start the trick of "getting ugly;" and no disease is more difficult to cure....
I marked them steadfast in the field. Death grimly sided with the foe, And smote each leaden hero ...
poetry. One and all, at least, and each with his particular fancy, we read story-books in childhood...
highest art of all, since it combines the greatest mass and diversity of the elements of truth and ...
distresses never man knew less. A great romantic - an idle child. CHAPTER XVI. A HUMBLE REMONSTRANC...
triumphantly protected innocence and beauty. Elsewhere in his essay Mr. James has protested with ex...
So, about the next island of Iona, sang Columba himself twelve hundred years before. And so might I...
expression both in words and gestures. Love, anger, and indignation shone through him and broke for...
The very best talker, with me, is one whom I shall call Spring- Heel'd Jack. I say so, because I ne...
good fellowship; but as far as actual experience goes, I have only met one man in my life who might...
They get little rest indeed; but restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, l...
Galton's, the image of each new sitter brings out but the more clearly the central features of the ...
with posters, "Burlesque of OTHELLO," and the contrast blazed up in my mind like a bonfire. An unfo...
aboriginal taproot of the race. A thousand interests spring up in the process of the ages, and a th...