 Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set...  Book News - Page 4891888Full view - About this book
 | 1901 - 1110 pages
...features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I lived with words. And what I thus wrote was for no ulterior use ; it was written consciously...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, 1 must sit down at once and set... | |
 | 1915 - 826 pages
...but choose well." Let us see what an Artful Dodger did when he was on the " kinchin lay" : — • '' Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Authorship - 1889 - 308 pages
...Stevenson has said of himself during those years when he was laying the foundation of what he is to-day : " Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force, or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and... | |
 | 1910 - 724 pages
...vocabulary. He tells us he had vowed he would learn to write, and says: "Whenever I read a book on a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conscious force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf - Deaf - 1909 - 398 pages
...think that this practice had much to do with his simple style and use of pure English. Stevenson says: "Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 460 pages
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labors at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labours at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labours at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 pages
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labours at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... | |
 | Homer - 1896 - 232 pages
...that tempted me; and I practised to acquire it, as men learn to whittle, in a wager with myself. . . . Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, ... in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down, at... | |
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