. Stevensoniana; an anecdotal life and appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited from the writings of Barrie [and others]. •AOC£?A > oa H73 o o O. i S HIS FOREBEARS 7 From his Highland ancestors Louis drew the strain of Celticmelancholy, with all its perils and possibilities, and its kinshipto the mood of day-dreaming, which has flung over so manyof his pages now the vivid light wherein figures imagined growreal as flesh and blood, and yet again the ghostly, strange, lone-some, and stinging mist, under whose spell we see the worldbewitched, and every object quickens with a throb o
. Stevensoniana; an anecdotal life and appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited from the writings of Barrie [and others]. •AOC£?A > oa H73 o o O. i S HIS FOREBEARS 7 From his Highland ancestors Louis drew the strain of Celticmelancholy, with all its perils and possibilities, and its kinshipto the mood of day-dreaming, which has flung over so manyof his pages now the vivid light wherein figures imagined growreal as flesh and blood, and yet again the ghostly, strange, lone-some, and stinging mist, under whose spell we see the worldbewitched, and every object quickens with a throb of infectiousterror. Love, anger, and indignation, we read in the sons toobrief and touching outline of his father, Thomas Stevenson,shone through him and broke forth in imagery. How impressive, how enlightening is it to be told of his justand picturesque language, of his freakish humour, clothingitself in a vesture at once apt and emphatic; above all, of thepainful yet surely most admirable circumstance attending hislast moments, when, as he began to feel the ebbing of thatgreat power of speech, the dying would reject one word afteranother as inadequate
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