item: #1 of 20 id: 10910 author: Le Gallienne, Richard title: Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems date: None words: 7149 flesch: 88 summary: Great man of song, whose glorious laurelled head Within the lap of death sleeps well at last, Down the dark road, seeking the deathless dead, Thy faithful, fearless, shining soul hath passed. No more the leonine heroic head, The ruling arm, great heart, and kingly eye; No more th' alchemic tongue that turned poor themes Of statecraft into golden-glowing dreams; No more a man for man to deify: Laurel no more--the heroic age is dead. keywords: day; death; eyes; god; great; heart; home; love; man; men; song; spring; thee; world cache: 10910.txt plain text: 10910.txt item: #2 of 20 id: 13088 author: Chapman, John Jay title: Emerson and Other Essays date: None words: 49036 flesch: 72 summary: Great men are not always like wax which their age imprints. It is noticeable, too, that the early and imitative work of great men generally belongs to a particular school to which their maturity bears a logical relation. keywords: art; books; browning; character; country; day; emerson; end; england; english; form; good; great; hand; individual; know; language; law; life; light; literature; love; man; men; mind; moral; nature; new; people; place; poems; poetry; power; romeo; sense; shakespeare; society; soul; speech; spirit; stevenson; style; things; thought; time; truth; verse; whitman; words; work; world; years cache: 13088.txt plain text: 13088.txt item: #3 of 20 id: 15547 author: Overton, Jacqueline title: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls date: None words: 30319 flesch: 76 summary: [Illustration: Robert Louis Stevenson, from a photograph by Mr. Lloyd Osbourne] TO THE BOYS AT THE YORKVILLE LIBRARY AND TO ALL OTHER BOYS WHO LOVE TO TRAMP AND CAMP AND SEEK ADVENTURE I DEDICATE THIS BOOK WITH THE HOPE OF MAKING THEM BETTER FRIENDS WITH A MAN WHO ALSO LOVED THESE THINGS CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. VAILIMA 148 BIBLIOGRAPHY 175 ILLUSTRATIONS Robert Louis Stevenson _ keywords: book; boy; day; days; edinburgh; family; father; friends; good; home; house; island; letters; life; little; lloyd; louis; louis stevenson; man; men; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; robert; room; scotland; sea; seas; ship; south; stevenson; stories; story; time; visit; way; work; years cache: 15547.txt plain text: 15547.txt item: #4 of 20 id: 21272 author: Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry) title: The Bibliotaph, and Other People date: None words: 55362 flesch: 73 summary: I, for one, wish that great men would not leave their love letters around. 'I remembered having laughed myself when I had seen good men struggling with adversity in the person of a jack-ass, and the recollection filled me with penitence. keywords: author; bibliotaph; books; day; days; english; euphues; fact; friends; gautier; gentleman; good; hand; hardy; home; house; humor; john; keats; letters; library; life; light; literature; love; lyly; making; man; men; new; novel; pages; people; place; poet; priestley; public; read; reader; reading; said; second; sort; stevenson; story; talk; things; thought; time; volume; way; women; words; work; world; years; young cache: 21272.txt plain text: 21272.txt item: #5 of 20 id: 22294 author: Black, Margaret Moyes title: Robert Louis Stevenson date: None words: 41401 flesch: 64 summary: A man of strong prejudices, a man too of varying moods, Mr Stevenson knew what it was at times to endure hours of depression, to suffer from an almost morbidly religious conscience, but he always kept a courageous hold on life and found the best cure for a shadowed soul lay in constant and varied work. [1] The portion of this family history--_Family of Engineers_--which Mr Stevenson had completed, at the time of his death, is to be found in 'The Edinburgh Edition' of his works. keywords: balfour; book; boy; chapter; child; days; death; edinburgh; face; family; far; father; friends; good; health; heart; home; house; interest; letters; life; louis stevenson; love; man; men; mother; mr stevenson; mrs; nature; people; place; pleasure; robert; samoan; school; scotland; sea; stories; story; strong; things; thomas stevenson; time; vailima; wife; work; world; years; young cache: 22294.txt plain text: 22294.txt item: #6 of 20 id: 23433 author: Herford, Oliver title: The Kitten's Garden of Verses date: None words: 2234 flesch: 88 summary: In Summer quite the other way, I find it very hot all day, But Human People do not care, [Illustration] The Golden Cat Great is the Golden Cat who treads The Blue Roof Garden o'er our heads, The never tired smiling One That Human People call the Sun. keywords: dog; illustration; kitten; mew; net cache: 23433.txt plain text: 23433.txt item: #7 of 20 id: 30714 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 date: None words: 185468 flesch: 84 summary: _ xxiii.; _ xxiii.; xxiv. 235, 265, 268-70, 274, 276, 278, 279, 291, 314, 317, 328, 338, 339, 346, 349, 360, 369, 370, 377, 398; xxv. keywords: apia; away; balfour; baxter; bed; belle; black; book; boys; business; captain; case; chapter; character; charles; chief; children; colvin; coming; course; david; day; days; dear; death; dinner; edinburgh; end; english; face; family; fanny; father; fellow; find; forest; friend; german; god; goes; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; henry; high; history; home; hope; hour; house; idea; intro; island; james; justice; kind; king; lady; late; leave; left; letter; life; live; lloyd; look; lord; louis; love; mail; man; mataafa; mean; men; mind; miss; month; morning; mother; mrs; native; new; news; night; note; paper; past; people; place; poor; present; rest; return; road; robert; room; round; samoa; sea; second; send; seq; set; sidney; sir; sort; south; stevenson; story; strong; tale; tell; thing; thought; time; vailima; verandah; visit; volume; want; war; water; way; white; wife; wish; words; work; world; writing; xxiii; xxiv; xxv; year; yesterday cache: 30714.txt plain text: 30714.txt item: #8 of 20 id: 30894 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 date: None words: 128757 flesch: 81 summary: I'm going to Shandon Hydropathic _cum parentibus_. For permission to use the_ LETTERS _in the_ SWANSTON EDITION OF STEVENSON'S WORKS _the Publishers are indebted to the kindness of_ MESSRS. keywords: affectionate; air; black; blue; book; burns; charles; cold; colvin; course; davos; day; days; deal; dear; death; edinburgh; edmund; english; essay; eyes; face; faithful; father; fear; feel; fine; following; french; friend; god; good; gosse; great; half; hand; head; health; heart; henley; home; hope; hotel; house; kind; know; l. s.; letter; life; living; look; louis; louis stevenson; love; man; mean; men; mind; morning; mrs; new; night; paper; people; place; pleasure; present; r. l.; read; reading; remember; robert; round; scotland; sea; second; set; sidney; sir; sitwell; sort; spirit; spring; stevenson; story; street; summer; sun; things; thomas; thomas stevenson; thought; time; trees; volume; want; way; weather; wife; wind; winter; wish; words; work; world; write; writing; years cache: 30894.txt plain text: 30894.txt item: #9 of 20 id: 31557 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 date: None words: 149146 flesch: 73 summary: Old man, said Maka. I see old man, no got a spear, said the king. keywords: apemama; apia; beach; black; board; boat; body; brother; bush; business; captain; casco; case; chapter; chief; child; children; church; cocoa; coming; consuls; cook; course; dark; day; days; dead; death; end; english; european; eyes; face; family; father; fear; feet; fine; fish; french; german; good; government; great; green; half; hand; head; high; home; hour; house; island; isle; justice; king; know; lagoon; law; lay; left; life; little; low; man; marquesan; mataafa; men; midst; mind; moment; morning; native; new; night; open; palms; people; place; point; poor; present; president; public; samoa; sea; sense; set; ship; sound; south; spirit; tapu; tembinok; think; thought; time; town; tree; village; visit; war; water; way; white; wife; wind; woman; word; work; years cache: 31557.txt plain text: 31557.txt item: #10 of 20 id: 31809 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24 date: None words: 136775 flesch: 81 summary: Your little _conte_ is delightful. But this is all as you shall choose; I give you _carte blanche_ to do or not to do.--Yours most sincerely, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. keywords: art; baxter; bed; book; bournemouth; business; case; charles; child; cold; colvin; come; course; day; days; dear; death; england; family; fanny; father; fear; fellow; fine; following; friend; garden; god; good; half; hand; head; health; hear; henley; henry; home; honolulu; hope; house; hyères; interest; island; james; kind; l. s.; lady; lake; left; letter; life; like; lloyd; look; louis; louis stevenson; love; low; man; matter; men; mind; miss; money; months; mother; mrs; new; news; paper; people; place; play; pleasure; point; r. l.; read; return; right; robert; saranac; sea; second; set; ship; sidney; sir; skerryvore; solitude; south; stay; stevenson; story; strange; tell; thing; thomas; thought; till; time; verses; volume; voyage; want; way; wife; wish; word; work; write; writing; year cache: 31809.txt plain text: 31809.txt item: #11 of 20 id: 333 author: Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir title: Robert Louis Stevenson date: None words: 10795 flesch: 69 summary: Poor John!' There is a world of abrupt, homely talk like this to be found in the speech of Captain Nares and of Jim Pinkerton in _The Wrecker_; and a wealth of Scottish dialect, similar in effect, in _Kidnapped_, _Catriona_, and many other stories. _FOURTH IMPRESSION_ LONDON EDWARD ARNOLD 41 & 43 MADDOX STREET, BOND STREET, W. 1906 THE GREATER PART OF THIS ESSAY WAS GIVEN AS A LECTURE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION keywords: art; character; death; effects; eye; human; life; man; phrases; romance; sense; stevenson; stories; story; style; time; words; work; world; writer; writing cache: 333.txt plain text: 333.txt item: #12 of 20 id: 33428 author: Various title: Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work date: None words: 16561 flesch: 69 summary: A JUSTIFICATION Boston, June 5, 1900.--When Mr. Stevenson was at Saranac in the Adirondacks I sent him a short editorial on his Brownies that I had written for the Boston _Daily Advertiser_, and also a letter, saying that I owed him one dollar. That wonderful looking out was the first thing that impressed me when I met Mr. Stevenson in Sydney in '93. keywords: art; book; edinburgh; family; father; friend; home; island; letters; life; louis; louis stevenson; man; mrs; music; new; people; reading; robert; samoa; stevenson; time; vailima; work; world; writer; years cache: 33428.txt plain text: 33428.txt item: #13 of 20 id: 36763 author: Stubbs, Laura title: Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage date: None words: 11922 flesch: 76 summary: The entire population of the island seemed to have gathered together in a picturesque group on the shore to bid them farewell; and this group formed a brilliant foreground to our parting view of Tonga, with its green esplanade, its villa palace, its church and its white Government Offices, the latter of which stood boldly out against the groves of bananas and long feathery vistas of coconut palms.[2] We steamed out of the harbour of Nukualofa by a different passage to that by which we had entered, and before we passed the reef we had to make our way through a perfect network of little islands, all alike, palm-fringed and scattered about at random like flowers in a meadow. Outside these huts, sitting or standing, or lounging about in indolent inaction, were native men, women, and children--dear little brown-skinned babies, innocent of any attire save their original birthday suit, rolled and tumbled on the grass. keywords: coconut; coral; face; grave; green; heart; house; illustration; island; kava; man; men; native; page; road; stevenson; trees; tusitala; vailima; water cache: 36763.txt plain text: 36763.txt item: #14 of 20 id: 3814 author: Simpson, E. Blantyre (Evelyn Blantyre) title: Robert Louis Stevenson date: None words: 8100 flesch: 70 summary: However far away Louis Stevenson roved, there was mirrored on the tablets of his memory his own country, its speech, its very atmosphere. Volume I of this series is Whistler by Haldane Macfall Volume II, Robert Louis Stevenson by Eve Blantyre Simpson Additional volumes to be announced shortly. keywords: boy; days; edinburgh; eyes; father; home; life; louis; man; men; mother; robert; spirit; stevenson; time; work; years cache: 3814.txt plain text: 3814.txt item: #15 of 20 id: 43209 author: Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir title: In the Track of R. L. Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old France date: None words: 57972 flesch: 64 summary: It was not in pleasant valleys such as these, or in cosy little towns like Pont de Montvert, that the Camisards fought out their war with His Most Christian Majesty Louis, King of France and Brittany, but on the bare and rocky plateaus westward of the Cevennes, and on such mountain-tops as the Lozère. By January of 1877 he was busily prosecuting his explorations at Kermaric, a gunshot distant from Carnac, and the work went steadily on with the most fruitful results in many other parts of the district until the end of 1880, when Miln returned to Edinburgh in order to produce another book describing his researches. keywords: bridge; buildings; cathedral; cevennes; children; church; country; course; day; days; end; english; fair; feet; folk; france; french; good; great; hills; hotel; illustration; inn; interest; journey; l. s.; left; life; making; man; men; miles; morning; night; paris; people; place; pont; puy; river; road; room; set; south; stevenson; table; tarascon; tarn; tartarin; time; town; valley; village; visit; water; way; white; women; years cache: 43209.txt plain text: 43209.txt item: #16 of 20 id: 52528 author: Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift title: The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary date: None words: 47317 flesch: 79 summary: The young boys were like little old men, their faces hard and their eyes haggard and anxious. No one could tell us how this institution, which is known in other islands besides Manihiki, first arose. keywords: board; boat; boys; captain; day; eyes; fine; good; half; hands; head; henderson; hird; house; island; jack; janet; king; left; lloyd; louis; man; men; missionary; morning; native; night; people; place; room; round; saw; sea; ship; thought; time; tin; trader; water; way; white; wife; woman cache: 52528.txt plain text: 52528.txt item: #17 of 20 id: 53165 author: Byron, May title: A Day with Robert Louis Stevenson date: None words: 6463 flesch: 66 summary: In _Ordered South_ and other well-known essays, he shows the gradual relaxation of the ties which bind a man to terrestrial things,--and the curiously significant alteration in his regard for the facts of life,--from the sower in the dank spring furrows, to the sight of little children with their long possibilities before them. I believe that literature should give joy, was his maxim, one dank, dispirited word is harmful,--a crime of _lèse-humanité_. keywords: child; day; heart; illustration; life; little; man; master; mrs; stevenson; words; work; world cache: 53165.txt plain text: 53165.txt item: #18 of 20 id: 535 author: Stevenson, Robert Louis title: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes date: None words: 34835 flesch: 75 summary: The next night, 24th July 1702, a sound disturbed the Inspector of Missions as he sat in his prison-house at Pont de Montvert: the voices of many men upraised in psalmody drew nearer and nearer through the town. I remembered having laughed myself when I had seen good men struggling with adversity in the person of a jackass, and the recollection filled me with penitence. keywords: air; black; country; day; donkey; father; gevaudan; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; hill; hour; house; lady; lay; left; life; man; men; modestine; morning; new; night; pack; place; protestant; river; road; round; set; spirit; thought; time; valley; way; wind; wood; world cache: 535.txt plain text: 535.txt item: #19 of 20 id: 55714 author: Eaton, Charlotte title: Stevenson at Manasquan date: None words: 9478 flesch: 73 summary: Their mutual agreement on all financial matters reminded me of a remark made by mine host at a country inn, who, in speaking of his wife, said, She is my very best investment, and so was Mrs. Stevenson to her husband, _Lewis_, for so the family called him, and never Robert Louis. She sent word that she would be able to see me in half an hour, and I was shown into the living-room, where, meditating by the fire, sat Mrs. Stevenson. keywords: casco; day; eaton; face; friends; life; low; man; manasquan; mother; mrs; place; sanborn; ship; stevenson; things; time; way; world cache: 55714.txt plain text: 55714.txt item: #20 of 20 id: 590 author: Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) title: Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial date: None words: 64036 flesch: 67 summary: In reply to this letter Mr Stevenson wrote: THE COTTAGE, CASTLETON OF BRAEMAR, _Sunday_, _August_ (? _th_), 1881. Mr Stevenson's is, indeed, a very picturesque and striking figure. keywords: art; author; case; chapter; character; child; day; days; death; edinburgh; effect; end; fact; father; friend; genius; good; half; heart; henley; home; house; human; interest; island; kind; letter; life; long; lord; louis stevenson; love; man; master; men; mind; moral; mr henley; mr stevenson; nature; new; place; point; power; read; right; robert; sea; self; sense; set; stevenson; story; style; things; thought; time; view; way; work; world; years cache: 590.txt plain text: 590.txt