 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 pagina’s
...must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. . . . But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. It...earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mop39 ping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of coantenance for all those... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pagina’s
...to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. . . . But it is belter to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit...earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mop. ping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance for all those... | |
 | 1895 - 850 pagina’s
...all in our youth," is the refrain of " Virginibus Puerisque," but the conclusion of the matter is, " for God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself." " Pulvis et Umbra Sumus " (the second essay I quoted from) sits in judgment, not upon life's illusions... | |
 | John Kelman - 1903 - 326 pagina’s
...us, 'I am not ashamed of having passed through Newhaven and Dieppe.' ' Shelley was a young fool ... for God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.' No sensible person thinks worse of a lad because he has passed through such a phase, yet it is easy... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 238 pagina’s
...must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. . . . But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. It...at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of cojntenance for all those who have been wise in their own esteem, and have not learnt the rough lessons... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 280 pagina’s
...the scream is sometimes a theory. Shelley, chafing at the Church of England, discovered the cure 94 of all evils in universal atheism. Generous lads irritated...a fool of himself! As for the others, the irony of fafts shall take it out of their hands, and make fools of them in downright earnest, ere the farce... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 490 pagina’s
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. I Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they...them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. I There shall be such a mopping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1907 - 138 pagina’s
...to be entirely insensible to the jars and ' incongruities of life and take everything as it comes hi a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe...man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself I As for the others, the irony of facts shall take it out of their hands, and make fools of them in... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1910 - 282 pagina’s
...anarchy. Shelley was a young fool ; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries. But it is better to i be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a...young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himselfl^s for the others, the irony of facts shall take it out of their hands, and make fools of them... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pagina’s
...silence. Virffinibus Pueruque. Old and young we are all on our last cruise. Crabbed Age and Youth. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. Ibid. Youth is wholly experimental. A Letter to a young Gentleman. Vanity dies hard ; in some obstinate... | |
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Shelley was a young fool; so are these cock-sparrow revolutionaries. But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything... 
