readers' interest. When Stevenson reaches such points, he is always as though saying "See now how c...
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adventures, I can feel any very lively affection or antipathy." In the EBB-TIDE it is, in this resp...
Hence the interest which young and old alike have felt in TREASURE ISLAND, KIDNAPPED, and THE WRECK...
simple, would have been subdued in face of the great facts of life; if not lost, swallowed up in th...
unshifting background, which by art may be relieved, but never refined away wholly. He cannot escap...
this audacious paralogism." Many writers have done the same - and not a few critics have hinted at...
hero and heroine in her oven, having "fatted" them up well, to make sweet her eating of them, was b...
from first to last the idealistic dreamy or mystical romancer, and not the true idealist or dealer ...
it been His wull," indicating Heaven, "I wad hae likeit weel to hae made oot the fower hunner." Tha...
his voice as he exclaimed, "Ah, the years go on, and I don't miss him less, but more; next to my mo...
affection to those others to whom I cling, I love better than all the world besides - my mother. Fr...
own temper and feeling too. He makes us feel his confidants and friends, as has been said. One coul...
the verandah, is to taste a quiet conscience. And the strange thing that I mark is this: If I go ou...
innocent of lustre, and wear the natural hue of the material turned up with caked and venerable slu...
answer -. Perish the thought of it. "'Here am I on the threshold of another year, when, according t...