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296 A Plea for Gas Lamps.
improperly advertise the home of slanderous
Figaro, which is a back-shop to the infernal
regions ; but where soft joys prevail, where
people are convoked to pleasure and the philo-
sopher looks on smiling and silent, where love
and laughter and deifying wine abound, there,
at least, let the old mild lustre shine upon the
ways of man.
THE END.
INTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES.
improperly advertise the home of slanderous
Figaro, which is a back-shop to the infernal
regions ; but where soft joys prevail, where
people are convoked to pleasure and the philo-
sopher looks on smiling and silent, where love
and laughter and deifying wine abound, there,
at least, let the old mild lustre shine upon the
ways of man.
THE END.
INTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES.
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Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Non-Fiction > Books > Virginibus Puerisque, and other papers > (310) Page 296 |
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1881 [Date published] |
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United Kingdom >
England >
Greater London >
London
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Collections (object groupings) Essays |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] C. Kegan Paul & Co. [Publisher] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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