Godolphin [by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton]. By sir E.B. Lytton

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Página 86 - Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew God's altar to disparage and displace For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn His odious offerings, and adore the gods Whom he had vanquished. After these appeared A crew who, under names of old renown— Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train— With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human.
Página vi - I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things...
Página 85 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Página 85 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Página 119 - Lucilla was not satisfied with the letters — frequent as they were — that she received in answer; they were kind, affectionate, but the something was wanting. " The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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