 I am one of the few people in the world who do not forget their own lives. Good-bye, then, my dear fellow, and please write us a word; we expect to have three mails in the next two months: Honolulu, Tahiti, and Guayaquil. But letters will be forwarded...  The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 125by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899 - 516 pages
...will (weather and a jealous providence permitting) steam through the Golden Gates for HonoluIu.Tahiti, the Galapagos, Guayaquil, and — I hope not the bottom...Scribner's, if you hear nothing more definite directly. In ^ (three) days I leave for San Francisco. — Ever yours most cordially, RLS 127 PACIFIC VOYAGES (JUNE,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899 - 414 pages
...itself in. my mind and life. They tell me it is not so severe as that of youth ; if I (and the Cased) are spared, I shall tell you more exactly, as I am...people in the world who do not forget their own lives. io8 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1888. Good-bye, then, my dear fellow, and please write us a AET. 38. word... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - Authors, Scottish - 1901 - 280 pages
...1850-59 " I please myself often by saying that I had a Covenanting childhood." — RLS, MS. fragment. " I am one of the few people in the world who do not forget their own lives." — RLS, Letters, ii. 107. ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR STEVENSON was born at No. 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh,... | |
 | National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Meeting - Children - 1905 - 284 pages
...WHAT WE MAY LEARN OF CHILD-LIFE ' FROM THEM MRS. HERMAN H. BIRNEY "I am," said Robert Louis Stevenson, "one of the few people in the world who do not forget their own lives." To a few rare souls only do the emotions of childhood remain keen enough for analysis in after life.... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - 1906 - 96 pages
...he answered ; "I'm not afraid any longer; put away the Bible, and go on with Ballantyne's story." " I am one of the few people in the world who do not forget 17 their own lives," he boasted. His Garden of Verses testifies to the truth of this statement. When... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - Authors, English - 1912 - 364 pages
...happy." It was not till 1885 that his Child s Garden of Verses was published. " I amone," he says, "of the few people in the world who do not forget their own lives." We see the truth of this statement in these songs, descriptive of thoughts of nursery days. In the... | |
 | William John Locke - Bookbinding - 1914 - 374 pages
...day of the young woman of forty-five." Count Lavretsky, who was fifty-nine, twirled a grey moustache. "I am one of the few people in the world who do not regret their youth. I do not regret mine, with its immaturity, its follies and subsequent headaches.... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1915 - 410 pages
...1850-59 "I please myself often by saying that I had a Covenanting childhood."— RLS, MS. fragment. "I am one of the few people in the world who do not forget their own lives." — RLS, Letters, iii. 107. ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR STEVENSON was born at No. 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1912 - 414 pages
...wonder what they will think of Two Nations? . . . This, dear James, is a valedictory. On June isth the schooner yacht Casco will (weather and a jealous...for San Francisco. — Ever yours most cordially, R_ ^ g_ PACIFIC VOYAGES YACHT CASCO— SCHOONER EQUATOR— SS JANET NICOLL JUNE i888-OcTOBER 1890 IN... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1912 - 382 pages
...1850-59 "I please myself often by saying that I had a Covenanting childhood." — RLS, MS. fragment. "I am one of the few people in the world who do not forget their own lives." — RLS, Letters, iii. 71. ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR STEVENSON was born at No. 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh,... | |
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