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Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Novelist and essayist, was born at Edinburgh, the son of Thomas Stevenson, a distinguished civil engineer. His health was extremely delicate. He was destined for the engineering profession, in which his family had for two generations been eminent, but having neither inclination nor physical strength for it, he in 1871 exchanged it for law, and was called to the Bar in 1875, but never practised.
From childhood his interests had been literary, and in 1871 he began to contribute to the Edinburgh University Magazine and the Portfolio. A tour in a canoe in 1876 led to the publication in 1878 of his first book, An Inland Voyage. In the same year, The New Arabian Nights, ...
From childhood his interests had been literary, and in 1871 he began to contribute to the Edinburgh University Magazine and the Portfolio. A tour in a canoe in 1876 led to the publication in 1878 of his first book, An Inland Voyage. In the same year, The New Arabian Nights, ...
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When you have read, you carry away with you a memory of the man himself; it is as though you had touched a loyal hand, looked into brave eyes, and made a noble friend; there is another bond on you thenceforward, binding you to life and to the love of virtue.
It is to some more specific memory that youth looks forward in its vigils. Old kings are sometimes disinterred in all the emphasis ... more...
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Abilities—No man's abilities are so remarkably shining, as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of a friend, to recommend them to the notice of the world.
—Pliny.
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Absence, with all its pains,Is by this charming moment wip'd away.
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Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.
—Goodrich.
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It is told of Admiral Collingwood that on his travels ... more...
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SHAKESPEARE.
TEMPEST.
Act i. Sc. 2.
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:If the ill spirit have so fair a house,Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
Act i. Sc. 2.
I will be correspondent to command,And do my spiriting gently.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
A very ancient and fishlike smell.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
Our revels row are ended: ... more...
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PREFACE.
Cynics may ask, how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs and maxims of prudence which have been current in the world time out of mind? They will say that their only use is to repeat them after some unhappy wight has “gone wrong.” When, for instance, a man has played “ducks and drakes” with his money, the fact at once calls up the proverb which declares that ... more...
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ARIADNE.
One grows to love the Roman fountains as sea-born men the sea. Go where you will there is the water; whether it foams by Trevi, where the green moss grows in it like ocean weed about the feet of the ocean god, or whether it rushes reddened by the evening light, from the mouth of an old lion that once saw Cleopatra; whether it leaps high in air, trying to reach the gold cross on St. Peter's or pours ... more...
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CERVANTES.
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
The most trivial act of the daily life of some men has a unique interest, independent of idle curiosity, which dissatisfies us with the meagre food of date, place, and pedigree. So in the "Cartas de Indias" was published, two years ago, in Spain, a facsimile letter from Cervantes when tax-gatherer to Philip II., informing him of the efforts he had made to collect the taxes ... more...
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Many Thoughts of Many Minds.
Ability.—No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.—Dr. Johnson.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already ... more...
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Where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Love's Labour's Lost, A. 4, S. 3.
The idea of her life shall sweetly creep
Into his study of imagination;
And every lovely organ of her life
Shall come apparel'd in more precious habit,
More moving-delicate, and full of life,
Into the eye and prospect of his soul.
Much Ado About Nothing, A. 4, S. 1.
Kindness in women, not ... more...
