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Ordered South. 163
more — there it is that death and memory assail him.
And even if mankind shall go on, founding heroic cities,
practising heroic virtues, rising steadily from strength to
strength ; even if his work shall be fulfilled, his friends
consoled, his wife remarried by a better than he ; how
shall this alter, in one jot, his estimation of a career
which was his only business in this world, which was so
fitfully pursued, and which is now so ineffectively to
end?
more — there it is that death and memory assail him.
And even if mankind shall go on, founding heroic cities,
practising heroic virtues, rising steadily from strength to
strength ; even if his work shall be fulfilled, his friends
consoled, his wife remarried by a better than he ; how
shall this alter, in one jot, his estimation of a career
which was his only business in this world, which was so
fitfully pursued, and which is now so ineffectively to
end?
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| Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Non-Fiction > Books > Virginibus Puerisque, and other papers > (177) Page 163 |
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| Description | By Robert Louis Stevenson. Contents: Virginibus puerisque -- Crabbed age and youth -- An apology of 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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| Shelfmark | F.5.e.27 |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] C. Kegan Paul & Co. [Publisher] |
| Description | Full 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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