The Novels of Lord Lytton: Pelham. FalklandAthenaeum society, 1897 |
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Página x
... beautiful flowers is that which also bears the keenest of thorns , so our virtues and vices are often stalks from the same root , and the very discords of our natures , like those in music , may contribute to the general harmony . One ...
... beautiful flowers is that which also bears the keenest of thorns , so our virtues and vices are often stalks from the same root , and the very discords of our natures , like those in music , may contribute to the general harmony . One ...
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... beautiful part in the economy of this world , that nothing is without its use ; every weed in the great thoroughfares of life has a honey , which observation can easily extract ; and we may glean no unimportant wisdom from folly itself ...
... beautiful part in the economy of this world , that nothing is without its use ; every weed in the great thoroughfares of life has a honey , which observation can easily extract ; and we may glean no unimportant wisdom from folly itself ...
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... beautiful has been admitted into the pursuits of labor as a principle ; religion has been regaining the ground it lost in the latter half of the last century . What is technically called education ( education of the school and the ...
... beautiful has been admitted into the pursuits of labor as a principle ; religion has been regaining the ground it lost in the latter half of the last century . What is technically called education ( education of the school and the ...
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... beautiful Lady Roseville , the most fascinating woman , perhaps , of the day . She was evidently the great per- son there , and , indeed , among all people who paid due deference to ton , was always sure to be so everywhere . I have ...
... beautiful Lady Roseville , the most fascinating woman , perhaps , of the day . She was evidently the great per- son there , and , indeed , among all people who paid due deference to ton , was always sure to be so everywhere . I have ...
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... have any oppor- tunity ; that sort of thing is a good deal talked about just at present . 1 Oh , what a beautiful thing is the Post - office ! I hear Lady Roseville is at Garrett Park . You 18 PELHAM ; OR , CHAPTER IV. ...
... have any oppor- tunity ; that sort of thing is a good deal talked about just at present . 1 Oh , what a beautiful thing is the Post - office ! I hear Lady Roseville is at Garrett Park . You 18 PELHAM ; OR , CHAPTER IV. ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Aberton acquaintance admirable Almack's amusement answered appearance beautiful Bedos better Buyemall CHAPTER character Cheltenham Chester Park Chitterling coat conversation countenance cried Curaçoa Dartmore dear dine dinner door dress Duchesse écarté English entered eyes fool fortune French Garrett Garrett Park gentleman Glanville's Glenmorris Guloseton hand heart Heaven Henry Henry Pelham honor horse hour imagine Lady Babbleton Lady Harriet Lady Roseville laughed looked Lord Dawton Lord Vincent Lufton Madame d'Anville manner ment mind Miss Trafford MOLIÈRE Monsieur Margot moral morning mother nature never night Palais Royal Paris passion pause Pelham Perpignan person pleasure Quintin Ritson rose round Russelton seemed Sir John Tyrrell Sir Lionel Sir Willoughby smile soon table d'hôte talk taste thing Thornton thou thought tion tone took true turned Tyrrell vanity Warburton Whigs whole woman Wormwood young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 305 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 23 - Shall I wasting in Despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the Day, Or the Flowery Meads in May; If she be not so to me, What care I, how fair she be.
Página 284 - Oh ! would that I could claim exemption From all the bitterness of that sweet name. I loved, I love, and when I love no more Let joys and grief perish...
Página 23 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Página 278 - His minutes whilst they're told Do make us old; And every sand of his fleet glass, Increasing age as it doth pass, Insensibly sows wrinkles there Where flowers and roses do appear. Whilst we do speak, our fire Doth into ice expire; Flames turn to frost, And ere we can Know how our crow turns swan, Or how a silver snow Springs there where jet did grow, Our fading spring is in dull winter lost.
Página vi - Do you remember the summer days, which seemed to me so short, when you repeated to me those old ballads with which Percy revived the decaying spirit of our national muse, or the smooth couplets of Pope, or those gentle and polished verses with the composition of which you had beguiled your own earlier leisure ? It was those easy lessons, far more than the harsher rudiments learned subsequently in schools, that taught me to admire and to imitate...
Página 241 - THERE was a youth, who, as with toil and travel Had grown quite weak and gray before his time Nor any could the restless griefs unravel Which burned within him, withering up his prime And goading him, like fiends, from land to land. Not his the load of any secret crime, For nought of ill his heart could understand, But pity and wild sorrow for the same ; Not his the...
Página 21 - He looked a lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair ; Big-boned, and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shouldered, and his arms were round and long.
Página 237 - He who esteems trifles for themselves, is a trifler— he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put is a philosopher.
Página 294 - Glories Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams And shadows soon decaying : on the stage Of my mortality my youth hath acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length ; By varied pleasures sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue.