 ... power, it was strange and painful to hear him reject one word after another as inadequate, and at length desist from the search and leave his phrase unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections...  The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 199by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1901Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...phrase unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotions, passionate as these were,...forth in imagery, like what we read of Southern races. For all these emotional extremes, and in spite of the melancholy ground of his character, he had upon... | |
 | Literature - 1887 - 896 pages
...phrase unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotions, passionate as these were,...forth in imagery, like what we read of southern races. For all these emotional extremes, and in spite of the melancholy ground of his character, he had upon... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...phrase unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotions, passionate as these were,...forth in imagery, like what we read of Southern races. For all these emotional extremes, and in spite of the melancholy ground of his character, he had upon... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...phrase unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotions, passionate as these were,...forth in imagery, like what we read of Southern races. For all these emotional extremes, and in spite of the melancholy ground of his character, he had upon... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1898 - 328 pages
...phrase unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotions, passionate as these were,...forth in imagery, like what we read of Southern races. For all these emotional extremes, and in spite of the melancholy ground of his character, he had upon... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1898 - 330 pages
...finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotionSj passionate as these were, and liable to passionate...in imagery, like what we read of .Southern races. For all these emotional extremes, and in spite of the melancholy ground of his character, he had upon... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - 1898 - 346 pages
...it was a perpetual delight to all that knew him. His use of language was both just and picturesque. Love, anger, and indignation shone through him and broke forth in imagery, like what we read of in Southern races." Louis gloried in his father's whimsical fancies, his " blended sternness and softness... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 218 pages
...phrase unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotions, passionate as these were,...him and broke forth in imagery, like what we read of in Southern races.1 And when Stevenson is writing Treasure Island, he tells us that his " father caught... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 216 pages
...phrase unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotions, passionate as these were,...him and broke forth in imagery, like what we read of in Southern races. 1 And when Stevenson is writing Treasure Island, he tells us that his " father caught... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 232 pages
...phrase unfinished rather than finish it without propriety. It was perhaps another Celtic trait that his affections and emotions, passionate as these were,...downs, found the most eloquent expression both in words _ and gestures. Love, anger, and indignation shone through him and broke forth in imagery, like what... | |
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