And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made the happiness of many, but such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance... Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Página 104por Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886 - 138 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed...I stood already committed to a profound duplicity oTTIfe! Many a man would have •even~Blazoned"such" irregularities as I was guilty of ; but from the... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1905 - 396 páginas
...reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed...the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicityof life. Many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1910 - 702 páginas
...reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly .grave countenance before the public. Hence it came *' about that I concealed...stood already committed to a profound duplicity of jife. Many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the high... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1917 - 450 páginas
...reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed...irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the high viewa that I had set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame. It was... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1915 - 428 páginas
...reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed...to a profound duplicity of life. Many a man would hare even blazoned such irreg nlarities as I was guilty of; but from the high views that I had set... | |
| Eduardo González - 1992 - 336 páginas
...Henry's disclosures multiply and enhance him, even if posthumously: "I concealed my pleasures; and then when I reached years of reflection, and began to look...already committed to a profound duplicity of life My scientific studies, which led wholly toward the mystic and the transcendental, reacted and shed... | |
| James J. Sosnoski - 1994 - 320 páginas
...reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed...already committed to a profound duplicity of life. In order to maintain the "grave countenance" of the scientist, though he admits he "had not conquered... | |
| Simon Joyce, Professor Simon Joyce - 2003 - 288 páginas
...reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed...when I reached years of reflection, and began to look around me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound... | |
| Alexandra Böhm - 2008 - 374 páginas
...reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high, and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I concealed...stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life.38 Da das Ausleben der „certain impatient gaiety of disposition" durch die viktorianische Moral... | |
| Ronald Paulson - 2007 - 423 páginas
.... . . the many that he had come so near to doing, yet avoided" (2.15). Dr. Jekyll himself tells how "it came about that I concealed my pleasures; and...already committed to a profound duplicity of life . . . hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame" — and so seeks a release of "those provinces... | |
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