 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1922 - 1084 pagina’s
...thing is possible) the way in which he got his style. "All through my boyhood and youth," says he, "I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...my own private end, which was to learn to write." He traces with gusto, and doubtless with as much accuracy as can be expected in a map drawn from memory,... | |
 | 1888 - 612 pagina’s
...native city, attending different schools as well as its University. Of his boyhood and youth he says : " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. What I wrote was for no ulterior use ; it was written consciously for practice. It was not so much... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 pagina’s
...have found pearls here ; and have in this place found the words of life." IV- A COLLEGE MAGAZINE AL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed...books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As 1 walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside,... | |
 | 1895 - 536 pagina’s
...in a most interesting and personal way. " All through my boyhood and youth," Stevenson has said, " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an...my own private end, which was to learn to write." He gives a pretty picture of those boyish days, when, as a frequent truant from school, he tramped... | |
 | Margaret Armour - 1895 - 118 pagina’s
...filial support, Stevenson's own confession assures us. "All through my boyhood and youth," he writes, " I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler " ; and this was highly probable, for his industry was by no means the sort to be recognised in scholastic... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 628 pagina’s
...life this temperament began to reveal itself in the craftsman, he shows in one of his essays : "All through my boyhood and youth I was known and pointed...the pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy in my own private end, which was to learn to write. I always kept two books in my pocket, one to read... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1896 - 342 pagina’s
...great a company of readers: — All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for a pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to loam to write. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1896 - 342 pagina’s
...himself to that dexterity and grace which have been the delight of so great a company of readers: — All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for a pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write.... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1896 - 342 pagina’s
...to that dexterity and grace which have been the delight of so great a company of readers : — All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for a pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write.... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1896 - 344 pagina’s
...himself to that dexterity and grace which have been the delight of so great a company of readers: — All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for a pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write.... | |
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I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. 
