Tag Archive | Robert Louis Stevenson
Are You Long-Winded?
Originally posted on IRISH FIREBRANDS: A Novel ~ and Other Works by Christine Plouvier, Indie Author:
If your long or descriptive sentences are anything like Stevenson’s, I’ll gladly read every last word of ’em! SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island,…
Marginalia, no.335
Originally posted on The New Psalmanazar:
[T]ell me again that I am not such cold poison to everybody as I am to some. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson in a letter to Frances Sitwell, Sept. 1873 I seem unable to make myself pleasant to certain of my colleagues. One of them, overfond of decorating our cubicles, recently…
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