 Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck. Other spots again seem to abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, 'miching mallecho.  The Quarterly Review - Strana 328úprava: - 1895Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - Počet stránok 634
...the prevailing colour of the dreams indulged by the child-artist, take these stage -directions : ' Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...yet a slight inward sensation warns us that they are uncanny enough to be true, at least in the given moment ; and thus the beginning of a shudder will... | |
 | 1883 - Počet stránok 736
...invent appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper story. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, ' miching mallecho.' The inn at Burford Bridge, with its arbours and green garden and silent, eddying... | |
 | 1883 - Počet stránok 708
...invent appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper story. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, 'miching mallecho.' The inn at Burford Bridge, with its arbours and green garden and silent, eddying... | |
 | 1901 - Počet stránok 862
...events and places," says Robert Louis Stevenson. "Certain dank gardens cry aloud for murder, certain houses demand to be haunted, certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck." This fitness of event and place Egerton Castle declares to be the very soul of romance. In the introduction... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1892 - Počet stránok 238
...harmony that unites an evil deed to its location. "Some places," he says, "speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses...abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable." And is all this fine and delicate sentiment, all this skillful playing with horror and fear, to be... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - Počet stránok 388
...invent appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper story. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, "miching mallecho." The inn at Burford Bridge, with its arbours and green garden and silent, eddying... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - Počet stránok 380
...invent appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper story. Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens...abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, "miching mallecho." The inn at Burford Bridge, with its arbours and green garden and silent, eddying... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - Počet stránok 380
...appropriate games for them, as I still try, just as vainly, to fit them with the proper story. J5ome places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry...abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, "miching mallecho." The inn at Burford Bridge, with its arbours and green garden and silent, eddying... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1895 - Počet stránok 252
...sensitiveness to surroundings which is a proper attribute both of the poet and the ghost-seer. " Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses...haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck," says Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson; and Burns condenses the same thought into that incomparable line,... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1896 - Počet stránok 242
...surroundings which is a proper attribute both of the poet and the ghost-seer. " Certain dark gardens cryaloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted ; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck," says Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson; and Burns condenses the same thought into that incomparable line,... | |
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