Stevenson : Robert Louis (1850-94): British essayist, critic, poet, & novelist.
... h a given prose style from a good imitation of it: In an English literary periodical it was recently observed that a certain Oxford professor who had studied Stevenson like a classic, attempted to apportion to Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne their respective work in the Wrecker, but his apportionment turned out [to] be hopelessly erroneous. To this the obvious answer is that the Wrecker is a ...
... complicated by any outside intervention". USA, Great Britain and the Soviet Union asked for a bilateral settlement instead of UN involvement. The US representative to the UN, Adlai Stevenson, said: "the Kashmir question should be peacefully resolved.... We urged bilateral talks between the parties last year. An agreement cannot be imposed from the outside." This was reported by the President ...
... depends upon the personal preferences & ability of the critic. In an English literary periodical it was recently observed that a certain Oxford professor who had studied Stevenson like a classic, attempted to apportion to Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne their respective work in the Wrecker, but his apportionment turned out [to] be hopelessly erroneous. To this the obvious answer is that the Wrecker is a ...
... things, Thou grim jest played with the immortal spirit." (Ibid, p. 588) "Here a Mill and there a river, Each a glimpse and gone for ever!" 1 : In these words Robert Louis Stevenson epitomizes for a child the transitoriness that characterizes the landscape seen on a railway journey. But do they not equally convey the sense of dismay that man feels in his insecure confrontation... growth, and decay and death, with a period of transient stability in between (j ā yate, asti, bardhate, viparimiti, apak ṣ ayati, na ś yati). Did not Arjuna on the battle- 1 R. L. Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses (quoted by Ian Ramsay in Prospect for Metaphysics). Page 3 field of Kurukshetra get overwhelmed with his vision of Time the Destroyer and cry ...
... Poornananda Swami Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven above, And the road below me. R. L. Stevenson (The Vagabond) ...
... guilty only of what the Younger Pitt, in his maiden speech in Parliament, called "the atrocious crime of being a very young man". But he is a young man belonging to the rare category described by R.L. Stevenson (another adherent to the ideals of courage and generosity): "We want young men who have brains enough to make fools of themselves!" Evidently, he means those who possess not only enthusiasm and energy ...
... these things rise from. Anger, fear, jealousy touch the heart no doubt just as they touch the mind but they rise from the navel region and entrails (i.e. the lower or at highest the middle vital). Stevenson has a striking passage in Kidnapped where the hero notes that his fear is felt primarily not in the heart but the stomach. Love, hope have their primary seat in the heart, so with pity etc. The ...
... plant, in the metal, and in the animal. Sometimes, even in man, it works in compartmental or tight divisions. His mind often does not know what his vital being is doing. There is a novel by R. L. Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", that is based on, the perception of the double personality where the same consciousness is working in one part quite unknown to another part. Not that this happens in every ...
... things rise from. Anger, fear, jealousy touch the heart no doubt just as they touch the mind but they rise from the navel region and entrails (i.e. the lower or at highest the middle vital). Stevenson has a striking passage in the " Kidnapped" where the hero notes that his fear is felt primarily not in the heart but the stomach. Love, hope have their primary seat in the heart, so with pity ...
... that are grammatically impossible. About one expression, I had to explain to him with all the force possible that it couldn't be allowed and he dropped it. SRI AUROBINDO: I see. In a novel of Stevenson's a character says, "Opulent orotunda Dublin," and argues: "Why should I say 'Rotunda Dublin' like the others and not as I please?" Now modern writers invent new words: for "beautiful and lucid" they ...
... years, my father gave me a Bengali book to read—he used to give us a lot of books—narrating the adventures of Captain Cook. Later on, when I learned to read English properly, naturally enough I read Stevenson's Treasure Island. How I lived those adventures! just like hundreds of kids around the world. Much later I read about the discoveries of many navigators. Among them was Louis Antoine de Bougainville ...
... after battle of Seringapatnam in 1799, Pazhassi Raja raised the standard of opposition a second time and shook for a while the very foundations of occupying British power. Colonel Stevenson's efforts early in 1801 cut off the Pazhassi Raja from his adherents; by May the British troops had made much headway and with every port both above and below the ghats in British hands and the entire ...
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