Stevenson's Attitude to Life: With Readings from His Essays and LettersT.Y. Crowell, 1901 - 43 頁 |
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Æs Triplex Apology for Idlers art thou afraid better thing bracing brave breath buoyant character cheer Christian Christmas Sermon clung conscience courage dead death dogma duty dwell Edmund Gosse El Dorado element essay exis fear forget free play full-blooded spirit genial give Gosse called grim happy-starred heart heaven Hyères idea ideal impulses instincts and appetites JOHN FRANKLIN GENUNG key of word kingdom of heaven labour Lay Mor literary literature live look manent Possibility manhood ment mind mood morality morbid natural religion neighbour ness never Omar Khayyam ourselves pain palpitating perfect Philistine philosophy points of outset presupposition quote reaction reckon region Remarks on Human says sense side as turned sound spiritual fatigue STEVENSON'S ATTITUDE strain sum-total superseded surely task of happiness tence Teufelsdröckh thought thrill tion tonic Tophet torpor true truth utterance venson's vital Walt Whitman whole wholesome wonderful pageant writes wrong youth
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第 7 頁 - What art thou afraid of? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go .cowering and trembling? Despicable biped! what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee? Death? Well, Death; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will or can do against thee! Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer...
第 8 頁 - Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer whatsoever it be; and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee ? Let it come, then ; I will meet it and defy it...
第 3 頁 - It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
第 34 頁 - A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
第 31 頁 - Go with each of us to rest ; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching ; and when the day returns, return to us, our sun and comforter, and call us up with morning faces and with morning hearts — eager to labour — eager to be happy, if happiness shall be our portion — and if the day be marked for sorrow, strong to endure it.
第 36 頁 - I would either read, or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note down the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I lived with words. And what I thus wrote was for no ulterior use, it was written consciously for practice. It was not so much that I wished to be an author (though I wished that too) as that I had vowed that I would learn to write.
第 34 頁 - There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.
第 4 頁 - And even if death catch people, like an open pitfall, and in mid-career, laying out vast projects, and planning monstrous foundations, flushed with hope, and their mouths full of boastful language, they should be at once tripped up and silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination?
第 25 頁 - • of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto. If a thing is wrong for us, we should not dwell upon the thought of it; or we shall soon dwell upon it with inverted pleasure.