AEs Triplex: And Other EssaysT. B. Mosher, 1903 - 77 psl. One of Stevenson's lesser-known works, €Aes Triplex discusses the topics of death, funerals and the afterlife. This volume also includes€Ordered South€and€Walking Tours. |
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Alps ancholy beautiful begins better blindly and swiftly body brain CHRISTMAS SERMON cloud cold colour comes corner dallied darkness death delight die young disenchanted dull earth enjoyment equable ES TRIPLEX essay eyes fall fancy feel feet fiery mountain friends glad goes grog grows happy thinking head heart hill honour hope human humour infinitesimal invalid knapsack knock landscape late lark leap little glimpses living look man's mankind mind morning nerves never night numbered occasion olive-garden ORDERED SOUTH outlived parlour pass peace peril Permanent Possibility picture pipe pleasure Possibility of Sensation pride quietude and desertion regulated tempera remember Robert Louis ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON says Hazlitt sense Shadow sleep sort soul spirit stand Stevenson stride surely tepid milk thing thought tin shoes tion travelling TRIPLEX trumpet walking tour whole wind words
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vi psl. - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
viii psl. - To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
xiii psl. - Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace : Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet ; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
23 psl. - ... does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? When the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods love die young, I cannot help believing they had this sort of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake the man, this is to die young.
73 psl. - I had brought with me as a bon bouche to crown the evening with. It was my birthday, and I had for the first time come from a place in...
xii psl. - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
22 psl. - It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. 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.
18 psl. - ... has most time to consider others. That eminent chemist who took his walks abroad in tin shoes, and subsisted wholly upon tepid milk, had all his work cut out for him in considerate dealings with his own digestion. So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
xii psl. - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
17 psl. - As courage and intelligence are the two qualities best worth a good man's cultivation, so it is the first part of intelligence to recognize our precarious estate in life, and the first part of courage to be not at all abashed before the fact. A frank and somewhat headlong carriage, not looking too anxiously before, not dallying in maudlin regret over the past, stamps the man who is well armored for this world. And not only well armored for himself, but a good friend and a good citizen to boot. We...