...thing is possible) the way in which he got his style. "All through my boyhood and youth," says he, "I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...my own private end, which was to learn to write." He traces with gusto, and doubtless with as much accuracy as can be expected in a map drawn from memory,...

...native city, attending different schools as well as its University. Of his boyhood and youth he says : " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. What I wrote was for no ulterior use ; it was written consciously for practice. It was not so much...

...have found pearls here ; and have in this place found the words of life." IV- A COLLEGE MAGAZINE AL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As 1 walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside,...

...in a most interesting and personal way. " All through my boyhood and youth," Stevenson has said, " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...my own private end, which was to learn to write." He gives a pretty picture of those boyish days, when, as a frequent truant from school, he tramped...

...filial support, Stevenson's own confession assures us. "All through my boyhood and youth," he writes, " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler " ; and this was highly probable, for his industry was by no means the sort to be recognised in scholastic...

...early in life this temperament began to reveal itself in the craftsman, he shows in one of his essays : "All through my boyhood and youth I was known and...the pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy in my own private end, which was to learn to write. I always kept two books in my pocket, one to read...

...himself to that dexterity and grace which have been the delight of so great a company of readers : — All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for a pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write....

...himself to that dexterity and grace which have been the delight of so great a company of readers: — All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for a pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to loam to write....

...distinct purpose of self-education. In his interesting paper, entitled A College Magazine, he says : ' All through my boyhood and youth I was known and pointed...I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read and one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when...

...with his style. He has himself told how ' all through my boyhood and youth I was known and pointed at for the pattern of an idler, and yet I was always...I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read and one to write in.'t He wrote descriptions of what he saw ; he composed dialogues as he walked ;...