 | 1879 - 884 pagina’s
...scene, but the inmost sentiment of it, which is the highest of all tributes to the writer's power. Night is a dead, monotonous period under a roof; but...and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes iu the face of nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains,... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1879 - 300 pagina’s
...Donkey in the Cevennes," by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the following extract from the work is quoted, " What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. All night long he can hear nature breathing deeply and freely ; even as she takes her rest she turns... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1879 - 1410 pagina’s
...scene, but the inmost sentiment of it, which is the highest of all tributes to the writer's power. Night is a dead, monotonous period under a roof; but in the O]MTI world it pusses lightly with its stars, and dews, and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes... | |
 | 1880 - 470 pagina’s
...keenly he enjoys the absence of the " fourposter," sleeping among the pines under the star-lit heavens! "Night is a dead, monotonous period under a roof ;...and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field. All night long he can hear nature breathing deeply and freely ; even as she takes her rest she turns... | |
 | 1909 - 752 pagina’s
...rise? Was the radius of your intellectual vision as broad as Stevenson's? Listen to what he saw : — " What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked...light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and freely; even as she takes her rest she turns... | |
 | Edinburgh - 1881 - 552 pagina’s
...feathers to and fro, With a song, sweet and strong, Back to me who loved her so. A MIDNIGHT PIC-NIC. "Night is a dead, monotonous period under a roof;...hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature." ROBERT Louis STEVENSON. j|X the 22nd of June 1883, a few minutes before midnight, a strange-looking... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pagina’s
...he enjoys the absence of the " four-poster," sleeping among the pines under the star-lit heavens ! " Night is a dead, monotonous period under a roof ;...its stars, and dews, and perfumes ; and the hours arc marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886 - 284 pagina’s
...made a hearty meal ; and as soon as the sun went down, I pulled my cap over my eyes and fell asleep. Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but...light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and freely ; even as she takes her rest she turns... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 pagina’s
...made a hearty meal ; and as soon as the sun went down, I pulled my cap over my eyes and fell asleep. Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but...light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and freely; even as she takes her rest, she turns... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 382 pagina’s
...made a hearty meal; and as soon as the sun went down, I pulled my cap over my eyes and fell asleep. Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but...light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and freely; even as she takes her rest she turns... | |
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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls... 
