"Robert louis stevenson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Robert Louis Stevenson which was chosen for the monument in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. He gave my daughter a medallion cast from this, because he knew that she was a great lover of Stevenson. The bas-relief was dedicated to his friend, Joe Evans. I knew Saint-Gaudens ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various
... quoted some rather nice lines to us one day," said Marjory. "They were by Robert Louis Stevenson, I think. I don't know if I can remember them properly, but ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke
... who nibble at novels as they nibble at luncheon—there are also some hearty eaters; but 98 per cent of them detest Thackeray and refuse resolutely to open a second book of Robert Louis Stevenson. They scent an enemy of the sex in Thackeray, who never seems to be in earnest, and whose indignant sarcasm and melancholy truthfulness they shrink from. "It's only a story, anyhow," they argue again; "he might, at least write a pleasant one, instead of bringing in all ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison
... knew that here were swarthy little Japanese with teas and silks, dusky Kanakas with copra, and Alaskan liners carrying gold and returning miners. There would be brigs from Buenos Ayres and schooners that had nosed into Robert Louis Stevenson's magic South Sea islands. Puffy London steamers, Nome and Skagway liners condemned long since on the Atlantic Coast, queer rigged hybrids from Rio and other South American ports, were gorging themselves with lumber or wheat or provisions ...
— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine
... : Constant Beaufils, Etude sur la vie et les poesies de Charles d'Orleans, 1861; Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
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