The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: St. IvesC. Scribner's Sons, 1912 |
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Page 396 - The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek and tresses gray Seemed to have known a better day: The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy: The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry.
Page 520 - The Girl I left Behind me," shyly at first, but anon with terrific expression. He broke off with a sigh: "Heigho!" in fact, said Rowley: and started off again while I tapped out the time, and hummed: "But now I'm bound for Brighton camp, Kind heaven then pray guide me, And send me safely back again To the girl I left behind me!
Page 247 - ... parler à des sourds. Chat, et vieux, pardonner ! cela n'arrive guères. Selon ces lois, descends là-bas, Meurs, et va-t'en, tout de ce pas^ Haranguer les sœurs filandières: Mes enfants trouveront assez d'autres repas.
Page 418 - Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he ; He played a spring, and danced it round, Below the gallows-tree.
Page 193 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 80 - ... one-storeyed and dwarfish projections. To add to this appearance, it was grotesquely decorated with crockets and gargoyles, ravished from some mediaeval church. The place seemed hidden away, being not only concealed in the trees of the garden, but...
Page 81 - ... and dwarfish projections. To add to this appearance, it was grotesquely decorated with crockets and gargoyles, ravished from some mediaeval church. The place seemed hidden away, being not only concealed in the trees of the garden, but, on the side on which I approached it, buried as high as the eaves by the rising of the ground. About the walls of the garden there went a line of well-grown elms and beeches, the first entirely bare, the last still pretty well covered with red leaves, and the centre...