 | 1895 - 722 pages
...James Walter Ferrier and Robert Glasgow Brown. Of Ferrier, who, we read, went " to ruin with a kind of kingly abandon like one who condescended — but once...with the lights all out, he fought as for a kingdom:" of Brown "of all men. .the most like to one of Balzac's characters" who "led a life, and was attended... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - Authors, Scottish - 1895 - 94 pages
...will take a more than merely human secretary to disinter that character. What ! a class that is to be in want from no fault of its own, and yet greedily...the onset of the legions commanded by ' The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord, That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...that, in that lost battle, he should have still the energy to fight. He had gone to ruin with a kind of kingly abandon, like one who condescended ; but once...with the lights all out, he fought as for a kingdom. Most men, finding themselves the authors of their own disgrace, rail the louder against God or destiny.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 pages
...that, in that lost battle, he should have still the energy to fight. He had gone to ruin with a kind of kingly abandon, like one who condescended ; but once...with the lights all out, he fought as for a kingdom. Most men, finding themselves the authors of Mfl OLD MORTALITY their own disgrace, rail the louder against... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...that, in that lost battle, he should have still the energy to fight. He had gone to ruin with a kind of kingly abandon, like one who condescended ; but once...with the lights all out, he fought as for a kingdom. Most men, finding themselves the authors of their own disgrace, rail the louder against God or destiny.... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 740 pages
...will take a more than merely human secretary to disinter that character. What ! a class that is to be in want from no fault of its own, and yet greedily...description, down to the marvellous quotation from Bnnyan that closes it, is one of the sovereign passages of modern literature ; the pathos of it is... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 316 pages
...that, in that lost battle, he should have still the energy to fight. He had gone to ruin with a kind of kingly abandon, like one who condescended ; but once...with the lights all out, he fought as for a kingdom. Most men, finding themselves the authors of their own disgrace, rail the louder against God or destiny.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1898 - 330 pages
...that, in that lost battle, he should have still the energy to fight. He had gone to ruin with a kind of kingly abandon, like one who condescended ; but once...with the lights all out, he fought as for a kingdom. Most men, finding themselves the authors of their own disgrace, rail the louder against God or destiny.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...that, in that lost battle, he should have still the energy to fight. He had gone to ruin with a kind of kingly abandon, like one who condescended; but once...with the lights all out, he fought as for a kingdom. Most men, finding themselves the authors of their own disgrace, rail the louder against God or destiny.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 452 pages
...that, in that lost battle, he should have still the energy to fight. He had gone to ruin with a kind of kingly abandon, like one who condescended; but once...with the lights all out, he fought as for a kingdom. Most men, finding themselves the authors of their own disgrace, rail the louder against God or destiny.... | |
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Most men, finding themselves the authors of their own disgrace, rail the louder against God or destiny. Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance. But he had held an inquest and passed sentence : mene,... 
