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...Excerpt: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coars...

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... The Art of W... ... The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stev... ... The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ... State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way.... ...sity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Art of W... ...m Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Art of Writing... ...nto one. The web, then, or the pattern: a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of ... ... the public prints; and it has been debated, to put the matter mildly, from a point of view that was calculated to surprise high-minded men, and bring... ... published in the Idler, August 1894. **Ne Pas Confondre. Not the slim green pamphlet with the im- print of Andrew Elliot, for which (as I see with a...

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Excerpt: Prince Otto -- A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition).

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...PRINCE OTTO A Romance 1905 edition by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...PRINCE OTTO A Romance 1905 edition by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Prince Otto ... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Prince Otto – A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylvani... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Prince Otto – A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State Unive... ...Otto – A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ye occasionally wandering to the busts and the long array of many-coloured books, was quietly reviewing the labours of the day before. He was a man of... ...n at the court of Grunewald; and that great, pleasant, sunshiny gallery of books and statues was, in practice, Gotthold’s private cabi- net. On this p... ...ngling French rhymes and correcting joint proofs. Still following the book-lists, I perceive that Mr. Swinburne has dedicated a rousing lyric and some...

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Excerpt: Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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... Vailima Lett... ... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevens... ... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and... ... State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way.... ...sity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vailima Lett... ...Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 V ailima Letters... ...tem is strong. 15 V ailima Letters SUPPLEMENTARY PAGE. Here beginneth the third lesson, which is not from the planter but from a less estimable chara... ... set myself to the task with a tape-line; it seemed a dreary business; then I bor- rowed a prismatic compass, and tackled the task afresh. I 17 V ail... ...them for friendship’s sake, and try to find toler- able what is vital for your friend. I cannot forbear chal- 217 V ailima Letters lenging you to it,...

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...Introduction: This tale, of which I have not consciously changed a single feature, I received from tradition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windwa...

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...Contents THE SONG OF RAHERO ............................................................................4 I. THE SLAYING OF TAMATEA ..................................................................................................................

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... Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publicat... ...ds by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any cha... ...niversity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ballads... ...ty assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ballads by Rob... ...umes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ballads by Robert Lo... .........................................60 CHRISTMAS AT SEA .................................................................................64 Ballads... ............................60 CHRISTMAS AT SEA .................................................................................64 Ballads by Robert Lo... ...hy as a cat, with never a change of face, Taheia slips to the door, like one that would breathe a space; Saunters and pauses, and looks at the stars, ... ...any a man he counselled Of high and low degree, With the herdsmen on the mountains And the fishers of the sea. And he came and went unweary, And read ...

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...

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...A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote t... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- vers... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Po... ...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...hurch-goers, singers of hymns at family wor- ship, hardy cricketers; their books are printed in London by Spottiswoode, Trubner, or the Tract Society;... ...before his eyes in that excursion, than has yet been collected in the blue-books or the white- books of the world. Mulinuu (where the walk is to begin... ...and their enemies looked on inert from the line of the opposing forts. The lists were not yet pre- pared, the tournament was not yet open; and the att...

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...the long nights you lay awake And watched for my unworthy sake: For your most comfortable hand That led me through the uneven land: For all the story-books you read: For all the pains you comforted:...

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...Contents A Child?s Garden of Verses .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Bed in Summer ...........................................................

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity ...

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...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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...MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and... ...tronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsy... ...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...R AT HOME “THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically... ...reat stillness and solitude for the rebellious mind, when in the dearth of books and play, and in the intervals of studying the Shorter Catechism, the... ...we attain to worthy pleasures. Men and women contend for each other in the lists of love, like rival mesmerists; the ac- tive and adroit decide their ... ...II SINCE THE ABOVE was written another novelist has entered repeatedly the lists of theory: one well worthy of mention, Mr. W. D. Howells; and none ev...