 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 824 pages
...follow instead the Harrow boys ; and say that I came on some such business as that of my lantern-bearers on the links ; and described the boys as very cold,...talk as silly and indecent, which it certainly was. I might upon these lines, and had I Zola's genius, turn out, in a page or so, a gem of literary art,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1892 - 322 pages
...follow instead the Harrow boys; and say that I came on some such business as that of my lantern-bearers on the links; and described the boys as very cold,...talk as silly and indecent, which it certainly was. I might upon these lines, and had I Zola's genius, turn out, in a page or so, a gem of literary art,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1892 - 298 pages
...themselves, and they are discussing (as it is highly proper they should) the possibilities of existence. To the eye of the observer they are wet and cold and...pleasure, the ground of which is an illsmelling lantern. III. FOR, to repeat, the ground of a man's joy is. often hard to hit. It may hinge at times upon a... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 452 pages
...themselves, and they are discussing (as it is highly proper they should) the possibilities of existence. To the eye of the observer they are wet and cold and...pleasure, the ground of which is an ill-smelling lantern. m For, to repeat, the ground of a man's joy is often hard' to hit. It may hinge at times upon a mere... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 452 pages
...follow instead the Harrow boys; and say that I came on some such business as that of my lantern-bearers on the links; and described the boys as very cold,...talk as silly and indecent, which it certainly was. I might upon these lines, and had I Zola's genius, turn out, in a page or so, a gem of literary art,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 pages
...follow instead the Harrow boys; and say that I came on some such business as that of my lantern-bearers on the links; and described the boys as very cold,...talk as silly and indecent, which it certainly was. I might upon these lines, and had I Zola's genius, turn "out, in a page or so, a gem of literary art,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 pages
...follow instead the Harrow boys; and say that I came on some such business as that of my lantern-bearers on the links; and described the boys as very cold,...talk as silly and indecent, which it certainly was. I might upon these lines, and had I Zola's genius, turn out, in a page or so, a gem of literary art,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 456 pages
...follow instead the Harrow boys; and say that I came on some such business as that of my lantern-bearers on the links; and described the boys as very cold,...talk as silly and indecent, which it certainly was. I might upon these lines, and had I Zola's genius, turn out, in a page or so, a gem of literary art,... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1896 - 312 pages
...surrounded, all of which they were; and their talk as silly and indecent, which it certainly was . . . but ask themselves, and they are in the heaven of...pleasure, the ground of which is an ill-smelling lantern.' Thus in depicting life at large, ' To miss the joy,' that is, the lantern — 'is to miss all.' 'To... | |
 | Bert Leston Taylor - 1912 - 104 pages
...the links "under the huge windy hall of the night and cheered by a rich steam of toasting tinware. To the eye of the observer they are wet and cold and...pleasure, the ground of which is an ill-smelling lantern." To one who has not the secret of the lanterns, he says, the scene upon the links is meaningless. So... | |
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I came on some such business as that of my lantern-bearers on the links; and described the boys as very cold, spat upon by flurries of rain, and drearily surrounded, all of which they were ; and their talk as silly and indecent, which it certainly was.... 
