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saying that those whom the gods love die young, I
cannot help believing they had this sort of death also
in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake
the man, this .is to die young. Death has not been
suffered to take so much as an illusion from his
heart. In the hot-fit of life, a-tiptoe on the highest
point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other
side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely
quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing,
when, trailing with him clouds of glory, this happy-
starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual
land.
121
saying that those whom the gods love die young, I
cannot help believing they had this sort of death also
in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake
the man, this .is to die young. Death has not been
suffered to take so much as an illusion from his
heart. In the hot-fit of life, a-tiptoe on the highest
point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other
side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely
quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing,
when, trailing with him clouds of glory, this happy-
starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual
land.
121
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| Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Collected works > Works of Robert Louis Stevenson > Miscellanies, Volume III > (137) Page 121 |
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| Description | Contents: Virginibus Puerisque; Later Essays: Fontainbleau, Realism*, Style*, Morality*, Books which have Influenced Me, Day after Tomorrow*, Letter to a Young Gentleman, Pulvis, Christmas Sermon, Damien. |
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| Shelfmark | Hall.275.a |
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| Description | Edinburgh edition. Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans Green and Co, 1894-98. [28 volumes in total, only some of which NLS has digitised.] |
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Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Distributor] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] T. and A. Constable [Printer] Longmans, Green, and Co. [Publisher] Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 [Editor] |
| 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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