 I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live by their wits, so I do not despair. But the truth is I am pretty nearly useless at literature, and I will ask you to spare St. Ives when it goes to you; it is a sort of Count Robert of Paris.  McClure's Magazine ... - Страница 5301895Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 392 страници
...spared over the ungrateful canvas ; and it will not come together, and I must live, and my family. Were it not for my health, which made it impossible,...was young, which might have now supported me during these ill years. But do not suppose me to be down in anything else ; 1 It seemed an obvious duty to... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 304 страници
...delivered my mind, I would like it, I think, to be made public. But the other part of me regimbs.1 I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live...truth is I am pretty nearly useless at literature, and I will ask you to spare St. Ives when it goes to you ; it is a sort of Count Robert of Paris. But... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1896 - 456 страници
...undiminished." Mr. Colvin is thinking, no doubt, of passages such as this, from the very last letter : — " I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live...was young, which might have now supported me during these ill years. But do not suppose me to be down in anything else ; only, for the nonce, my skill... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1896 - 448 страници
...undiminished." Mr. Colvin is thinking, no doubt, of passages such as this, from the very last letter :— " I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live...it not for my health, which made it impossible, I L mt uBu c ID IDT '"*f *^ tt iDijn^wm*icE tcni j did not stick to an hones: conmiorTjuaz TTO* »-ncr... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 366 страници
...my mind, I would like it, I think, to be made public. But 1894 the other part of me regimhs.1 Oct' I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live...truth is I am pretty nearly useless at literature, and I will ask you to spare St. Ives when it goes to you; it is a sort of Count Rohert of Paris. But... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 352 страници
...my mind, I would like it, I think, to be made public. But 1894 the other part of me regimbs.1 OctI know I am at a climacteric for all men who live by...truth is I am pretty nearly useless at literature, and I will ask you to spare St. Ives when it goes to you; it is a sort of Count Rohert of Paris. But... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 354 страници
...306 mind, I would like it, I think, to be made public. But 1894 the other part of me regimhs.1 OctI know I am at a climacteric for all men who live by...truth is I am pretty nearly useless at literature, and I will ask you to spare St. Ives when it goes to you; it is a sort of Count Rohert of Paris. But... | |
 | Hattie Tyng Griswold - 1898 - 398 страници
...overwork and the conclusion of the excruciating ' Ebb-Tide.' " Shortly before his death he wrote : — " I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live...commonplace trade when I was young, which might have supported me during all these ill years. But do not suppose me to be down in anything else ; only,... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - 1898 - 354 страници
...fight with his father, and some of Mr. Stevenson's arguments in favour of his sure profession, says : " Were it not for my health, which made it impossible,...common-place trade when I was young, which might have supported me during these ill years. But you men with salaries don't know how a family weighs on a... | |
 | Charles Frederick Wingate - 1898 - 312 страници
...so as to be self-supporting in case they lost their crowns. In 1894 Kobert Louis Stevenson wrote : " Were it not for my health, which made it impossible,...not stick to an honest, commonplace trade when I was still young, which would have now supported me during all these ill years." No calling should be avoided... | |
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