 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 824 Seiten
...passed into the woods, heard a bird break into song, hearkened for a trill or two, and found himself on his return a stranger at his convent gates ; for he...doleful places. The miser hears him and chuckles, and the days are moments. With no more apparatus than an ill-smelling lantern I have evoked him on the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1892 - 322 Seiten
...gates; for he had been absent fifty years, and of all his comrades there survived but one to recognise him. It is not only in the woods that this enchanter...doleful places. The miser hears him and chuckles, and the days are moments. With no more apparatus than an ill-smelling lantern I have evoked him on the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1892 - 298 Seiten
...passed into the woods, heard a bird break into song, hearkened for a trill or two, and found himself on his return a stranger at his convent gates; for he...and of all his comrades there survived but one to recognise him. It is not only in the woods that this enchanter carols, though perhaps he is native... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 Seiten
...into the woods, , heard a bird break into song, hearkened for a trill or two, and found himself on his return a stranger at his convent gates; for he...doleful places. The miser hears him and chuckles, and the days are moments. With no more apparatus than an ill-smelling lantern I have evoked him on the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 Seiten
...passed into the woods, heard a bird break into song, hearkened for a trill or two, and found himself on his return a stranger at his convent gates; for he...doleful places. The miser hears him and chuckles, and the days are moments. With no more apparatus than an ill-smelling lantern I have evoked him on the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 456 Seiten
...gates; for he had been absent fifty years, and of all his comrades there survived but one to recognise him. It is not only in the woods that this enchanter...doleful places. The miser hears him and chuckles, and the days are moments. With no more apparatus than an ill-smelling lantern I have evoked him on the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 452 Seiten
...passed into the woods, heard a bird break into song, hearkened for a trill or two, and found himself on his return a stranger at his convent gates; for he...and of all his comrades there survived but one to recognise him. It is not only in the woods that this enchanter carols, though perhaps he is native... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 628 Seiten
...passed into the woods, heard a bird break into song, hearkened for a trill or two, and found himself on his return a stranger at his convent gates; for he...enchanter carols, though perhaps he is native there. . . . All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 578 Seiten
...song, hearkened for a trill or two, and found himself on his return a stranger at his convent gates p for he had been absent fifty years, and of all his...enchanter carols, though perhaps he is native there. . . . All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and... | |
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There is one fable that touches very near the quick of life: the fable of the monk who passed into the woods, heard a bird break into song, hearkened for a trill or two, and found himself on his return a stranger at his convent gates; for he had been... 
