 I became aware of a strange lack. I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. And...  A Mating in the Wilds - Page 113by Ottwell Binns - 1920 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1880 - 470 pages
...fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect ; and to live out of doors with the woman a man loves is, of all lives, the most complete and free." Do not be startled, dear madam, by this remark; it springs from insouciance, not from any pruriency... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pages
...fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect ; and to live out of doors with the woman a man loves is, of all lives, the most complete and free." Do not be startled, dear madam, by this remark ; it springs from insouciance, not from any pruriency... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886 - 284 pages
...fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. And to live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free. As I thus lay, between content and longing, a faint noise stole towards me through the pines. I thought,... | |
 | 1892 - 456 pages
...is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude and which rightly understood is solitude made perfect. To live out of doors with the woman a man loves is, of all lives, the most complete and free." Probably no one in modern times has been regarded in the light of a Physiophile more unreservedly than... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 pages
...fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. And to live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free. As I thus lay, between content and longing, a faint noise stole towards me through the pines. I thought,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 382 pages
...fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. And to live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free. As I thus lay, between content and longing, a faint noise stole towards me through the pines. I thought,... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1895 - 216 pages
...fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. And to live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free. dogs at some very distant farm ; but steadily and gradually it took articulate shape in my ears, until... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 pages
...fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect And to live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free. ^1 "HE flower of the hedgerow and the star of heaven satisfy and delight us : how much more the look... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 384 pages
...fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. And to live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free. As I thus lay, between content and longing, a faint noise stole towards me through the pines. I thought,... | |
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