| 1913 - 258 стор.
...Baldwin and Miss Wilson have convinced me that we should gratefully say with Stevenson: "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." After encountering almost insurmountable obstacles, the heroine met "Our wonderworker," introduced... | |
| John Goldthwaite - 1996 - 397 стор.
...her might, Warm and fresh and sweet and white. To eat with apple tart. His axiomatic "The world is so full of a number of things, / I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings" might be traced to William Brighty Rand's Lilliput Levee (1863) and its oft-quoted lines, "Great, wide,... | |
| Lawrence S. Lerner - 1996 - 248 стор.
...equal and opposite flux — "expels the flux of the magnet" — and repels the magnet. The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. — ROBERT Louis STEVENSON. "Happy Thought" SECTION 44.1 Introduction Although the quantum properties... | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 стор.
...Robert Louis Stevenson, Happy Thought (A Child's Garden of Verses, 1885), which runs: The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. For his tutorial class on Modern English Literature in 1917, TSE listed: 'Stevenson as a poet. Read:... | |
| John Hollander - 1997 - 342 стор.
...line in his own debunking moral to one of his wonderful, adult fables a for our time ("The world is so full of a number of things, / I'm sure we should all ^ be as happy as kings, and we all know how happy kings are") —and, indeed, this £ is just the point: in an almost Blakean... | |
| Anthony D. Marley - 1998 - 188 стор.
...Q i Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Metaphors for a Period of Transition DAVID JABLONSKY "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." — Robert Louis Stevenson InA Child's Garden of Ver ses, Robert Louis Stevenson describes this couplet... | |
| James Thomas Farrell - 1998 - 300 стор.
...Illinois Press 1325 South Oak Street Champaign, Illinois 61820-6903 www.press.uillinois.edu The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. —Robert Louis Stevenson No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 стор.
...way I have to go to bed by day. 11151 1 1 175 A Child's Garden of Verses 'Happy Thought' The world is 1 11 76 A Child's Garden of Verses 'Looking Forward' When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very... | |
| Jean Webster - 2001 - 376 стор.
...ago, but I haven't had a second to finish it. Isn't this a nice thought from Stevenson? The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. It's true, you know. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1998 - 328 стор.
...the showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers. Happy Thought The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. The Wind I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard... | |
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