 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1885 - 124 pages
...children sing in Spain ; The organ with the organ man Is singing in the rain. XII LOOKING FORWARD w HEN I am grown to man's estate * * I shall be very proud...the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. XIII A GOOD PLAY WE built a ship upon the stairs All made of the back-bedroom chairs, And filled it... | |
 | 1900 - 516 pages
...childish, innocent selfishness which has escaped almost everyone else, he has caught, in the jaunty lines, "When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the little girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys." To show how near the verge of disillusionment the... | |
 | 1902 - 524 pages
...I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." " When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very tall and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys." From the land of story books one gets one's conception of emperors, soldiers, and hunters ; lions and... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pages
...at what is merely puerile. It is the same with " Looking Forward " (which also fills a page ) : — When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, • Longinans. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. That, again, expresses... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1894 - 264 pages
...always seems to me to sum up admirably the Monopolist attitude. Here it is. Look well at it : — " When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud...other girls and boys, Not to meddle with my toys." That is the way of the Monopolist. It catches him in the very act. He says to all the world : " Hands... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1894 - 232 pages
...always seems to me to sum up admirably the Monopolist attitude. Here it is. Look well at it : — " When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud...other girls and boys, Not to meddle with my toys." That is the way of the Monopolist. It catches him in the very act. He says to all the world : " Hands... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1894 - 264 pages
...always seems to me to sum up admirably the Monopolist attitude. Here it is. Look well at it : — " When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud...tell the other girls and boys, Not to meddle with ray toys." That is the way of the Monopolist. It catches him in the very act. He says to all the world... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 400 pages
...The children sing in Spain; The organ with the organ man Is singing in the rain. XII LOOKING FORWARD WHEN I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud...the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. XIII A GOOD PLAY WE built a ship upon the stairs All made of the back-bedroom chairs, And filled it... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...The children sing in Spain; The organ with the organ man Is singing in the rain. XII LOOKING FORWARD WHEN I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud...the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. XIII A GOOD PLAY WE built a ship upon the stairs All made of the back-bedroom chairs, And filled it... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...Japan, The children sing in Spain; The organ with the organ man Is singing in the rain. LOOKING FORWARD WHEN I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud...the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. XIII L A GOOD PLAY WE built a ship upon the stairs All made of the back-bedroom chairs, And filled... | |
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LOOKING FORWARD WHEN I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. 
