The Novels of Lord Lytton: Pelham. FalklandAthenaeum society, 1897 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance answered beautiful beneath Bess bosom breath character cheek Chester Park Clandonald Clutterbuck companion confession countenance cried dark Dawson dear death dinner door dream Ellen Emily's England entered epicure ERASMUS FALKLAND eyes fear feel felt foie gras gentleman Gertrude Glan Glanville's gray horse guilt Guloseton hand happiness heard heart Heaven honor hope horse hour Job Jonson jolly boys knew LADY EMILY Lady Margaret Lady Roseville learned less letter light lips living looked Lord Byron Lord Dawton marriage ment mind Monkton nature never Newmarket night once passed passion paused Pelham perhaps person poor remember replied returned Riego sauté scarcely secret seemed silence Sir John Sir John Tyrrell Sir Reginald Glanville smile soul spirit spot suffer tears tell things Thornton thought tion told tone took turned Tyrrell Tyrrell's vanity Vincent voice wish woman words
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Página 160 - I can give not what men call love, But 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...
Página 290 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Página 261 - The tree will wither long before it fall ; The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn ; The roof-tree sinks, but moulders on the hall In massy hoariness ; the...
Página 76 - Thus the advocates for the doctrine of utility — the most benevolent, because the most indulgent, of all philosophies — are branded with the epithets of selfish and interested ; decriers of moral excellence, and disbelievers in generous actions. Vice has no friend like the prejudices which call themselves virtue. Le pretexte ordinaire de ceux qui font le malheur des autres est qu'ils veulent leur bien.
Página 66 - L'on veut faire tout le bonheur, ou, si cela ne se peut ainsi, tout le malheur de ce qu'on aime.
Página 79 - No, sir," said the seeming pedler, smiling, and yet at the same time hurrying his goods into his box, and carefully turning the key, — " no, sir; I am only a bearer of other men's goods; my morals are all that I can call my own, and those I will sell you at your own price.
Página 85 - ... purpose of reading the new works before they came out. In fine, I have never neglected any opportunity of improving my mind; and the worst that can be said against me is, that I have remembered...
Página 48 - English of the fashionable world make business an enjoyment, and enjoyment a business : they are born without a smile ; they rove about public places like so many easterly winds, — cold, sharp, and cutting; or like a group of fogs on a frosty day, sent out of his hall by Boreas for the express purpose of looking black at one another. When they ask you " how you do, " you would think they were measuring the length of your coffin.
Página 79 - Optimist, on your opinions," quoth I, "but your observation leads me to suppose, that you are both an historian and a traveller: am I right?" "Why," answered the box-bearer, "I have dabbled a little in books, and wandered not a little among men. I am just returned from Germany, and am now going to my friends in London. I am charged with this box of goods; God send me the luck to deliver it safe." "Amen," said I; "and with that prayer and this trifle, I wish you a good morning.
Página 83 - Too candid by half," thought I. "This man is certainly a rascal ; but what is that to me? I shall never see him again;" and true to my love of never losing an opportunity of ascertaining individual character, I observed that I thought such an acquaintance very valuable, especially if he were in trade ; it was a pity, therefore, for my sake, that my companion had informed me that he followed no calling. " Why, sir," said he, " I am occasionally in Smplovment : my nominal profession is that of a broker.