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56 * * Virginibus Puerisqtie
see it going forward. And love, considered
as a spectacle, must have attractions for
many who are not of the confraternity. The
sentimental old maid is a commonplace of
the novelists ; and he must be rather a poor
sort of human being, to be sure, who can
look on at this pretty madness without in-
dulgence and sympathy. For nature com-
mends itself to people with a most insinuating
art ; the busiest is now and again arrested
by a great sunset ; and you may be as
pacific or as cold-blooded as you will, but
you cannot help some emotion when you
read of well-disputed battles, or meet a pair
of lovers in the lane.
Certainly, whatever it may be with regard
to the world at large, this idea of beneficent
pleasure is true as between the sweethearts.
To do good and communicate is the lover's
grand intention. It is the happiness of the
other that makes his own most intense
gratification. It is not possible to disentangle
the different emotions, the pride, humility,
pity and passion, which are excited by a

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London, 1887 - Virginibus Puerisque, and other papers
DescriptionBy Robert Louis Stevenson. 2nd edition. Contents: Virginibus puerisque. -- Crabbed age and youth. -- An apology for idlers. -- Ordered south. -- Aes triplex. -- El Dorado. -- The English admirals. -- Some portraits by Raeburn. -- Child's play. -- Walking tours. -- Pan's pipes. -- A plea for gas lamps.
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Form / genre: Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events: 1887 [Date published]
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Person / organisation: Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Publisher]
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author]
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DescriptionFull text versions of early editions of works by Robert Louis Stevenson. Includes 'Kidnapped', 'The Master of Ballantrae' and other well-known novels, as well as 'Prince Otto', 'Dynamiter' and 'St Ives'. Also early British and American book editions, serialisations of novels in newspapers and literary magazines, and essays by Stevenson.
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