The Life, Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, Volumen1K. Paul, Trench, 1883 |
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acquaintance afterwards Alexander Cockburn Amadis of Gaul Autobiographical barouche beautiful BOOK called Cambridge CHAP CHAPTER character child Colonel Bulwer Cotton daughter dear door English eyes fancy father favour feel felt gentle gentleman gipsy grandfather hand happy heard heart Hertfordshire honour hope James Warner kind Knebworth Knebworth House Lady Anne Lady Caroline Lamb Lady Clara Lady Melton learned letter LIONEL HASTINGS lived London looked Lord MANUSCRIPT marriage married Mary Warner master Milnes Lowndes mind Miss Lytton mother nature never night Norfolk once passed passion perhaps poem poor pupil Ramsgate recollection remember Richard Warburton romance RUPERT DE LINDSAY Samuel Parr scholar seemed sentiment sorrow spirit tale tender thou thought took Trinity Hall Tuftoe verses voice Wallington Windermere Winthrop Mackworth Praed woman word written young youth
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Página 142 - HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that...
Página 345 - It is painful to go through that series of inhuman persecutions, so common in domestic records; that system which, like all grounded upon injustice, is as foolish as tyrannical, and which always ends in misery, as it begins in oppression. Mary was too gentle to resist ; her prayers became stilled ; her tears ceased to flow ; she sat alone in her " helpless, hopeless brokenness of heart...
Página 351 - Lindsay the mouldering vaults of his knightly fathers ; and amid the banners of old triumphs and the escutcheons of heraldic vanity, they laid him in his palled and gorgeous coffin! I attempt not to extract a moral from his life. His existence was the chase of a flying shadow, that rested not till it slept in gloom and for ever upon his grave ! MONOS AND DAIMONOS.
Página 183 - Fiddles—' mankind may be divided into two classes : those who play the violin, and those who do not.
Página 119 - English ; there being such a prodigious number of our words that are both verbs and substantives, and spelt in the same manner, though often accented differently in pronunciation. This method has, by the fancy of printers, of late years been entirely laid aside, from an idea that suppressing the capitals shows the character to greater advantage; those letters prominent above the line disturbing its even, regular appearance.
Página 340 - will I betray that affection ; she has trusted in me, and she shall not be deceived ; she is innocent and happy, I will never teach her misery and guilt !" Thus her innocence reflected even upon him, and purified his heart while it made the atmosphere of her own. So passed weeks, until Rupert was summoned by urgent business to his estate. He spoke to her of his departure, and he drank...
Página 332 - Still the appeal, which to a principle would have been useless, was triumphant when made to an affection. And though selfishness constituted the system of his life, there were yet many hours when the system was forgotten, and he would have sacrificed himself at the voice of a single emotion. Few men of ability, who neither marry nor desire to marry, live much among the frivolities of the world after the age of twenty-eight. And De Lindsay, now waxing near to his thirtieth year, avoided the society...
Página 233 - Granta beheld him with such loving eyes Lift the light lance that struck at every prize. What the last news ? — the medal Praed has won ; What the last joke ? — Praed's epigram or pun ; And every week that club-room, famous then, Where striplings settled questions spoilt by men, When grand Macaulay sate triumphant down, Heard Praed's reply, and long'd to halve the crown.
Página 348 - I am not too late !" and, in mingled fondness and defiance, he threw his arms round the slender form which clung to it all wild and tremblingly. He looked round. " Old man," he said, " I have done you wrong, I will repay it, give me your daughter as my wife. What are the claims of her intended husband to mine? Is he rich? — my riches treble his?
Página 230 - In fact, he seemed to learn his subject from the speeches of those who went before him. Cockburn came next in readiness ; but, though he had more vigour than Praed, he wanted his grace—was sometimes too florid, sometimes too vulgar. Charles Villiers, renowned in Corn-Law polemics; Charles Buller, clever, but superficial—always wanting earnestness, and ironically pert; Wilson and Maurice, since honourably known in literature ; Tooke (who died young), the son of the Political Economist; all gave...