In existographies, Robert Stevenson (1850-1894) (WorldCat 100:27) (CR:3) was a Scottish writer and poet, popularly known for: Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verses, noted for []
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The following are quotes by Stevenson:
“The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be happy as kings.”
— Robert Stevenson (1885), Happy Thought; cited by Hilda Finnemore (1924) and Arthur Lovejoy (1933) [1]
References
1. (a) Stevenson, Robert L. (1885). A Child’s Garden of Verses (Ѻ). Publisher.
(b) Finnemore, Hilda. (1924). A History of the Earth from Star-Dust to Man (§1: What Things are Made Of, pgs. 5-20; quote, pg. 5). Longmans, Green, and Co.
(c) Lovejoy, Arthur. (1933). The Great Chain of Being: a Study of the History of an Idea (pg. 226). Harvard University Press, 1936.
Further reading
● Kalpakgian, Mitchell. (2012). “Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses” (Ѻ), The Civilized Reader, May 3.
External links
● Robert Louis Stevenson – Wikipedia.
