 ... some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful and I knew it; and...  The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson - Pagina 210door Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 pagina’s
...some practice, by effort and imitation, in rhythm, in harmony, in the fitting of part to part. He ' played the sedulous ape ' to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, to Obermann — a perplexing mosaic of colours, but with this... | |
 | 1901 - 1110 pagina’s
...tried again, and was again unsuccessful, and always unsuccessful ; but at least in these vain bouts I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction,...Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, and to " Obermann." A last quotation from a book which constantly tempts to quotation may be one of several prayers written... | |
 | 1915 - 826 pagina’s
...but choose well." Let us see what an Artful Dodger did when he was on the " kinchin lay" : — • '' Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, and to Obermann." (Robert Louis Stevenson.) This would serve admirably to illustrate what of truth there lies in Buffon's... | |
 | 1888 - 612 pagina’s
...or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Brown, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, and to Obermann." Stevenson's father intended... | |
 | 1889 - 308 pagina’s
...and I knew it, and 1 tried again, and was again unsuccessful ; but, at least, in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction, and the co-ordination of parts. Thus I lived with words." I regret that Mr. Stevenson has told us these things to a happier constitution... | |
 | 1910 - 724 pagina’s
...tried again, and was again unsuccessful, and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of parts." He then names some of the authors to whom he "played the sedulous ape," — all remarkable for the... | |
 | American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf - 1909 - 398 pagina’s
...tried again, and was again unsuccessful, and always unsuccessful ; but at least in these vain bouts I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the coordination of parts." Again, later, he says : "It is the great point of these imitations that there still shines, beyond... | |
 | Michigan Schoolmasters' Club - 1894 - 554 pagina’s
...learning the technique of their art. Stevenson's testimony on this point is very often quoted : "I have played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth,...Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, and to Obermann. This, like it or not, is the way to learn to write ; whether I have profited or not, that is the way.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 pagina’s
...some practice, by effort and imitation, in rhythm, in harmony, in the fitting of part to part. He i played the sedulous ape ' to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, to Obermann — a perplexing mosaic of colours, but with this... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 460 pagina’s
...tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but, at least, in these vain bouts I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction, and the co-ordination of parts. " That, like it or not, is the way to learn to write ; whether 1 have profited or not, that is the... | |
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