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Robert Louis Stevenson. The Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON South Seas Edition 1 An Inland Voyage . Travels with a Donkey . 2 Virginibus Puerisque . Ethical Papers . Edinburgh : Pictur- esque Notes . 3 New Arabian Nights . 4 The Amateur ...
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON South Seas Edition 1 An Inland Voyage . Travels with a Donkey . 2 Virginibus Puerisque . Ethical Papers . Edinburgh : Pictur- esque Notes . 3 New Arabian Nights . 4 The Amateur ...
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... Louis during this quarter century . I have devoted special attention to significant and fascinating people who have often been overlooked . Therefore I have longer essays not simply for the three men on this cover ( George Sisler and ...
... Louis during this quarter century . I have devoted special attention to significant and fascinating people who have often been overlooked . Therefore I have longer essays not simply for the three men on this cover ( George Sisler and ...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley Sidney Colvin. Novel LETTERS AND MISCEL- LANIES OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON EIR OF HERMISTON VEIR OF WEL THE PLAYS FABLES PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley Sidney Colvin. Novel LETTERS AND MISCEL- LANIES OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON EIR OF HERMISTON VEIR OF WEL THE PLAYS FABLES PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY ...
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Happy Louis. Collection “ La vie quotidienne ”/ “TheEveryday Life” collection: 1. Happy Louis ne veut pas s'habiller Happy Louis doesn't want toget dressed 6. Happy Louis se perd à la plage ... Louis has a little sister. www.happy-louis.com.
Happy Louis. Collection “ La vie quotidienne ”/ “TheEveryday Life” collection: 1. Happy Louis ne veut pas s'habiller Happy Louis doesn't want toget dressed 6. Happy Louis se perd à la plage ... Louis has a little sister. www.happy-louis.com.
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... Louis - René des Forêts : la voix et le volume ( Paris : José Corti , 1991 ) . The early novel and the poems are also explored in some of the essays published in Louis - René des Forêts , edited by Jean - Benoît Puech and Dominique ...
... Louis - René des Forêts : la voix et le volume ( Paris : José Corti , 1991 ) . The early novel and the poems are also explored in some of the essays published in Louis - René des Forêts , edited by Jean - Benoît Puech and Dominique ...
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Page 229 - After some common discourses had passed between us he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. '' When I came home and had set myself to read it I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Page 223 - She answered with a faint voice that as she had held a regal sceptre, she desired no other than a royal successor. Cecil requesting her to explain herself more particularly, she subjoined that she would have a king to succeed her; and who should that be but her nearest kinsman, the king of Scots?
Page 149 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into 30 its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay
Page 99 - An Epistolary Discourse, proving, from the Scriptures and the first Fathers, that the Soul is a Principle naturally mortal, but immortalized actually by the pleasure of God, to Punishment, or to Reward, by its Union with the Divine Baptismal Spirit. Wherein is proved, that none have the Power of giving this Divine Immortalizing Spirit, since the Apostles, but only the Bishops.
Page 229 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Page 473 - Christian, this vehement suspicion rightfully entertained towards me, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I abjure, curse, and detest the said errors and heresies...
Page 229 - After I had, with the best attention, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment of the favour he had done me in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it ; which I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 210 - Arkwright (she died 1844) ; was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of BA...
Page 175 - The Evidence of Reason, in proof of the Immortality of the Soul, independent on the more abstruse Inquiry into the Nature of Matter and Spirit. Collected from the MSS.
Page 223 - Ten days and nights she lay upon the carpet, leaning on cushions, which her maids brought her, and her physicians could not persuade her to allow herself to be put to bed, much less to make trial of any remedies which they prescribed to her.