 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1892 - 298 Seiten
...fool's heart, to know you had a bull's-eye at your belt, and to exult and sing over the knowledge. II. It is said that a poet has died young in the breast...the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 456 Seiten
...fiery and so innocent, they were so richly silly, so romantically young. But the talk, at any rate, was but a condiment; and these gatherings themselves...the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 454 Seiten
...fiery and so innocent, they were so richly silly, so romantically young. But the talk, at any rate, was but a condiment; and these gatherings themselves...the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 456 Seiten
...that a poet has died young in the breast of the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives,...possessor. Justice is not done to the versatility and the un plumbed childishness of man's imagination. His life from without may seem but a rude mound of mud;... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 Seiten
...fool's heart, to know you had a bull's-eye at your belt, and to exult and sing over the knowledge. II It is said that a poet has died young in the breast...the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 Seiten
...fool's heart, to know you had a bull's-eye at your belt, and to exult and sing over the knowledge. II It is said that a poet has died young in the breast...the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 Seiten
...battle, but send back merchant-clerks with more heart and spirit to their book-keeping by double entry. IT is said that a poet has died young in the breast...the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 Seiten
...send back merchant •clerks with more heart and spirit to their book•keeping by double entry. TT is said that a poet has died young in the •*•...the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor.... | |
 | William James - 1900 - 330 Seiten
...them with inappropriate talk. Woe is me that I cannot give some speciSTEVENSON QUOTED 237 mens! . . . But the talk was but a condiment, and these gatherings...the unplumbed childishness of man's imagination. His We from without may seem but a rude mound of mud: there will be some golden chamber at the heart of... | |
 | Richard Wilson - 1905 - 224 Seiten
...interest him in books, but all to no purpose, and remembering the comment of EL Stevenson on the saying that a poet has died young in the breast of the most stolid,* the present writer took pains to observe him out of school-hours. It was found that he was fond of... | |
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It is said that a poet has died young in the breast of the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor. 
