AWAY with funeral music - set
The pipe to powerful lips -
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.
I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.
Robert Louis StevensonHe recollected his courage.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: courage courageous
Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?
Robert Louis StevensonTags: courage bravery brave peril courageous
I have lost confidence in myself.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: belief confidence faith lost-faith lost-my-way
Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder. laugh! Before an hour's out, ye'll laugh upon the other side. Them that die'll be the lucky ones.
Robert Louis StevensonYou may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to me. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the barrel.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: in-the-apple-barrel
seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins
Robert Louis StevensonLike all men is distress,Gideon decided to do what Napoleon, what Shakespeare, what Alexander the Great would have done. There remained only the minor question, what is that?
Robert Louis StevensonThis is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" My father told him no, very little company, the more was the pity.
Robert Louis Stevenson« first previous
Page 27 of 28.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.