 The first duty in this world is for a man to pay his way; when that is quite accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then. Till then, he must pay assiduous court to the bourgeois who carries the purse. And...  If You Don't Write Fiction - 81. lappuseautors: Charles Phelps Cushing - 1920 - 85 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 882 lapas
...he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes ; but emphatically not till then. Till then, he must pay assiduous court to the bourgeois who carries the...the course of these capitulations he shall falsify hie talent, it can never have been a strong one, and he will have preserved a better thing than talent—... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1892 - 322 lapas
...accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then. Till then, he must pay assiduous court to the bourgeois who carries the...one, and he will have preserved a better thing than talent—character. Or if he be of a mind so independent that he cannot stoop to this necessity, one... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 lapas
...accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then. Till then, he must pay assiduous court to the bourgeois who carries the...character. Or if he be of a mind so independent that he can not stoop to this necessity, one course is yet open: he can desist from art, and follow some more... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 lapas
...accomplished, he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes; but emphatically not till then. Till then, he must pay assiduous court to the bourgeois who carries the...character. Or if he be of a mind so independent that he can not stoop to this necessity, one course is yet open: he can desist from art, and follow some more... | |
 | John St. Loe Strachey - 1897 - 356 lapas
...he says, must never forget this fact, nor must he fail to give the public what they want. If he is 'of a mind so independent that he cannot stoop to this necessity,' let him ' follow some more manly way of life.' ' I speak,' continues Mr. Stevenson, ' of a more manly... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 2005 - 229 lapas
...he may plunge into what eccentricity he likes ; but emphatically not till then. Till then, he must pay assiduous court to the bourgeois who carries the...falsify his talent, it can never have been a strong one, aad he wiE have preserved a better thing than talent — character. Or if he be of a mind so independent... | |
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