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PAN'S PIPES.
The world in which we live has been variousl}^
said and sung by the most ingenious poets and
philosophers : these reducing it to formula and
chemical ingredients, those striking the lyre in
high-sounding measures for the handiwork of
God. What experience supplies is of a mingled
tissue, and the choosing mind has much to reject
before it can get together the materials of a
theory. Dew and thunder, destroying Atilla and
the Spring lambkins, belong to an order of con-
trasts which no repetition can assimilate. There
is an uncouth, outlandish strain throughout the
web of the world, as from a vexatious planet in
the house of life. Things are not congruous and
The world in which we live has been variousl}^
said and sung by the most ingenious poets and
philosophers : these reducing it to formula and
chemical ingredients, those striking the lyre in
high-sounding measures for the handiwork of
God. What experience supplies is of a mingled
tissue, and the choosing mind has much to reject
before it can get together the materials of a
theory. Dew and thunder, destroying Atilla and
the Spring lambkins, belong to an order of con-
trasts which no repetition can assimilate. There
is an uncouth, outlandish strain throughout the
web of the world, as from a vexatious planet in
the house of life. Things are not congruous and
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| Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Non-Fiction > Books > Virginibus Puerisque, and other papers > (293) Page 279 |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/82675978 |
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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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1881 [Date published] |
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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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