Pelham; or, The adventures of a gentleman [by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton].

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Página 203 - wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star. Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? PB
Página 77 - Ah! Sir, had I but bestowed half the pains in learning a trade, that 1 have in learning to be a scoundrel, I might have been a rich man at this day; but, rogue as I am, still 1 may be your friend, and that, perhaps, when you least expect it.
Página 143 - I do but hide Under these words, like embers, every spark Of that which has consumed me. Quick and dark The grave is yawning;—as its roof shall cover My limbs with dust and worms, under and over, So let oblivion hide this grief. Julian and Maddalo. ***** With
Página 126 - Cai. Brutus, I do observe you now of late : I have not from your eyes that gentleness, And shew of love as I was wont to have. Julius Caesar,
Página 251 - K. Henry. Lord Say, Jack Cade hath sworn to have thy head. Say. Ay, but I hope your Highness shall have his. 2nd Part of Henry IV. PUNCTUAL to his appointment, the next morning came Mr. Job Jonson. I had been on the rack of expectation for the last three hours previous to his arrival, and the warmth of my welcome must have removed any
Página 170 - I breathed, But not the breath of human life, A serpent round my heart was wreathed, And stung my every thought to strife. The Giaour. " THANK heaven, the most painful part of
Página 134 - in Glanville's company when the murder was brought upon the tapis, and narrowly examined his behaviour upon a subject which touched him so fearfully. I could not, however, note any extraordinary confusion or change in his countenance; perhaps the pale cheek grew somewhat paler, the dreaming eye more abstracted, and the absent spirit more
Página 7 - shall be done ?" and with this coherent and explanatory harangue, the marquis sunk down in his chair in a sort of hysteric. The under butler looked at him in suspicious bewilderment. " Come," said I, " I will explain what his lordship means:" and, taking the man out of the room, I gave him, in brief, the
Página 267 - me for my evening's amusement, had I been left solely to my own will; but Glanville's situation forbade me to think of self, and so far from shrinking at the danger to which I was about to be exposed, I looked forward with the utmost impatience to the hour of rejoining Jonson. There was yet
Página 358 - had brought him. Sincerely do I wish that his loss may be supplied. I have already sufficient fortune for my wants, and sufficient hope for my desires. Thornton died as he had lived—the reprobate and the ruffian. " Pooh," said he, in his quaint brutality, to the worthy clergyman, who attended his last moments

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