Higher and Higher: Stories, with Two Exceptions ... Adapted ... from 'Self-help'.1876 - Biography |
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Page 44 - EXCELLENCE in art, as in everything else, can only be achieved by dint of painstaking • labour. There is nothing less accidental than the painting of a fine picture or the chiselling of a noble statue. Every skilled touch of the artist's brush or chisel, though guided by genius, is the product of unremitting study.
Page 7 - For a' sae sage he looks, what can the laddie ken? He's thinking upon naething, like mony mighty men: A wee thing mak's us think, a sma' thing mak's us stare, There are mair folk than him bigging castles in the air.
Page 7 - THE bonnie, bonnie bairn who sits poking in the ase, Glowering in the fire wi' his wee round face, Laughing at the fuffin' lowe — what sees he there? Ha ! the young dreamer's bigging castles in the air. His wee chubby face and his touzie curly pow Are laughing and nodding to the dancing lowe; He'll brown his rosy cheeks, and singe his sunny hair, Glowering at the imps wi...
Page 102 - Charles, you see this little shop ; I have brought you here on purpose to show it to you. In that shop your grandfather used to shave for a penny ! That is the proudest reflection of my life ! While you live never forget that, my dear Charles.