| Literature - 1912 - 880 pages
...recognized the danger, and foretold it, long ago, when he wrote to a young poet: "You are young, and may live to do much. The little artificial popularity...the styleless, of the shapeless, of the slap-dash, of the disorderly. There is trouble coming, I think, and you may have to hold the fort for us In evil... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1911 - 440 pages
...contending, that literature — painting — all art, are no other than pleasures, which we turn into trades. And more than all this, I had, and I have to thank...British pig returns to his true love, the love of the styless, of the shapeless, of the slapdash and the disorderly. There is trouble coming, I think; and... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 548 pages
...contending, that literature — painting — all art, are no other than pleasures, which we turn into trades. And more than all this, I had, and I have to thank...British pig returns to his true love, the love of the stylcless, of the shapeless, of the slapdash and the disorderly. There is trouble coming, I think ;... | |
| Richard Le Gallienne - Authors - 1925 - 298 pages
...contending, that literature — painting — all art, are no other than pleasures, which we turn into trades. And more than all this, I had and I have to thank...the shapeless, of the slapdash and the disorderly. Rudyard Kipling, with all his genius, his Morrowbie-Jukess, and At-the-End-of-the Passages, is a move... | |
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - Literature, Modern - 1926 - 380 pages
...many of his fellows were indifferent and that he listened for a music to which their ears were deaf: "The little artificial popularity of style in England...the shapeless, of the slapdash and the disorderly." But, for all that, it is absurd to say, as his critics do, that style took him by the ear and led him... | |
| English literature - 1926 - 718 pages
...setter-forth of strange gods. After a spasmodic attempt at style, the " British pig," says Stevenson, " returns to his true love, the love of the style-less, of the shapeless, the slapdash and the disorderly." Mr. Fowler's book is, as its title indicates, arranged in dictionary... | |
| Paul Maixner - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 562 pages
...myself; for the eager welcome you give to what is good - for the courtly tenderness with which you touch my defects. I begin to grow old; I have given my top...you may have to hold the fort for us in evil days. The Wrecker' June 1892 'The Wrecker' was the second of three novels Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne wrote... | |
| Roger Lancelyn Green - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 440 pages
...elbow — there's the risk." To Richard Le Gallienne. 28 December 1893. The Romantic Nineties, p. 81: 'You are still young, and you may live to do much....the shapeless, of the slapdash and the disorderly. Rudyard Kipling, with all his genius, his Morrowbie-Jukeses, and At-the-end-of-the-Passages, is a move... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 644 pages
...artificial popularity of style in England tends, I think, to die out; the British pig returns to his vomit - to his true love, the love of the style-less, of the shapeless, of the slapdash and the disorderly. Kipling with all his genius, with all his Morrowbie Jukeses, and At-the-End-of-the-Passages, is still... | |
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