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“... measure. Reading these pages, one often registers the force of the figure splendidly described by Robert LouisStevenson: ‘a splenetic, eager, tasteful, unjust man, filled with gusto and revolt’. This Hazlitt is very much the journalistic creature: the barnstorming, argufying man, working frantically to meet ...”

“... not straight ethnography, however: Segalen had a case to make, the same case that Gauguin and Robert LouisStevenson had made before him, against the degradation of native life which had set in, first with the coming of Christian missionaries to the islands early in the 19th century, and then with the onset of a ...”

“... too.’ Even his admirers could find it a strain: ‘He is not an easy man to be yourself with,’ Robert LouisStevenson confessed to Henry James, ‘there is so much of him, and the veracity and the high athletic intellectual humbug are so intermixed.’ Hardy wrote loyally after Meredith’s death that ‘His words ...”

“... success to increase his notoriety and win some sort of respect among his peers. In January 1886 Robert LouisStevenson published The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It sold forty thousand copies in Britain in its first six months. ‘There is something almost impertinent,’ Henry James wrote, ‘in the way ...”

“... Soviet Union was as much founded in the work of the 19th-century poetic realists Lewis Carroll and Robert LouisStevenson as in that of the 19th-century prosaic fantasists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ – but he would have been hard put to point to the aspects of fantasy in the works of ‘Marx, that old ...”

“... by William Archer, J.M. Barrie, Arnold Bennett, A.C. Benson, Hugh Benson, Laurence Binyon, Robert Bridges, Hall Caine, G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Maurice Hewlett, Anthony Hope, W.J. Locke, E.V. Lucas, J.W. Mackail, John Masefield, A.E.W. Mason, Gilbert Murray, Henry Newbolt, Owen ...”

“... enough staying power to hold my own in the world.’ A ‘pale gentle frightened little man’, as Robert LouisStevenson remembered him, Hardy had abandoned an exciting London career in architecture to return to his country home and his mother, then proceeded to marry against her wishes. His wife wanted to live in ...”

“... the west coast of North America to Europe or Asia. ‘But coming from Asia is easier.’ In 1889 Robert LouisStevenson, in the final chapter of a wandering life, settled on a hillside above Apia, the Samoan capital. He bought three hundred acres of jungle, and built a two-storey timber house. He was 39 and ...”

“... so fruitfully explored in Bella Bathurst’s The Lighthouse Stevensons (1999), an account of Robert LouisStevenson’s immediate ancestors and their pioneering contribution to lighthouse design around Britain and beyond.There is a pervading vagueness about Dora’s free-associating meditations. The word ...”

“... at the number of familiar names on the contents page: Barbara Trapido, Anthony Thwaite, Anne Stevenson, Alan Brownjohn, Helen Simpson, Andrew Motion, Michael Hofmann, Alan Sillitoe, Louis de Bernières and Geoff Dyer are ten of them, and ‘new’ isn’t the first word that springs to mind. But there are plenty of ...”

“... Keats walked this coast he felt it followed him,’ I said. But our plans involved Robert Burns. Karl, since he first began publishing Seamus in the New Statesman in the 1960s, always felt there was a clear affinity between Burns and Heaney. They were both the sons of farmers and they both allowed nature to oxygenate the mind and inflect the ...”

“... Another drawing was done with a nurse’s blue pencil on the flyleaf of a volume of The Works of Robert LouisStevenson.‘These drawings were presented to me by a very ill man,’ the catalogue entry read, quoting Edward Adamson, the art therapist who first encountered J.J. Beegan in 1946. By the time they ...”

“... literary works to his own poetry and prose, from plays by Aeschylus and Shakespeare’ to works by Robert LouisStevenson and Machado de Assis. Since 70 per cent of the Portuguese population was illiterate, this was always going to be a struggle. Pessoa paid little attention to costs and ‘his creditors were pounding ...”

“... periodically reverts to a hirsute beast in Virginie Despentes’s torrid first-person rewrite of Robert LouisStevenson (its title winningly translated as ‘Hairs on Me’). The creatures are present because short stories make it their business to speculate about an otherness they do not have time to investigate, and ...”

“... did, it would only have been to see the interlocutor’s eyes glaze over in bored disbelief. As Robert LouisStevenson remarked in one of his letters home from Germany, in that situation you just find yourself gabbling on about clanship, tartans, Jacobites and whatever else will make the necessary effect. Silence ...”