The Life of Edward Bulwer: First Lord Lytton, Volumen 1

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Macmillan and Company, 1913 - 575 páginas

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Página 355 - I regard as unfavourable to reformation the status of a prisoner throughout his whole career; the crushing of self-respect, the starving of all moral instinct he may possess, the absence of all opportunity to do or receive a kindness, the continual association with none but criminals, and that only as a separate item amongst other items also separate; the forced labour, and the denial of all liberty.
Página 560 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.
Página 469 - ... die !) he is provided with names to fill up the vacant posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. He both feels and declares himself equally strong as ever ; he submits his new appointments to his Majesty.
Página 415 - The King grants permission to Earl Grey, and to his Chancellor, Lord Brougham, to create such a number of peers as will be sufficient to ensure the passing of the Reform Bill, first calling peers' eldest sons. — Signed, WILLIAM R., Windsor, May 17, 1832.
Página 401 - All young Ladies will imagine (as soon as this Bill is carried) that they will be instantly married. Schoolboys believe that Gerunds and Supines will be abolished, and that Currant Tarts must ultimately come down in price ; the Corporal and Sergeant are sure of double pay ; bad Poets will expect a demand for their Epics. Fools will be disappointed, as they always are ; reasonable men, who know what to expect, will find that a very serious good has been obtained.
Página 541 - Caxtons' for a lampoon, which I know he himself has forgiven, and which I wish I could recall. " I had never seen that eminent writer but once in public when this satire was penned, and wonder at the recklessness of the young man who could fancy such personality was harmless jocularity, and never calculate that it might give pain.
Página 541 - Works' in such a kind, gay voice as gave me a feeling of friendship and welcome. "Here is an opportunity of being either satiric or sentimental. The careless papers written at an early period, and never seen since the printer's boy carried them away, are brought back and laid at the father's door, and he cannot, if he would, forget or disown his own children. "Why were some of the little brats brought out of their obscurity? I own to a feeling of anything but pleasure in reviewing some of these misshapen...
Página 25 - SIT here and muse! It is an antique room, High-roofed, with casements through whose purple pane Unwilling daylight steals amidst the gloom, Shy as a fearful stranger. There they reign (In loftier pomp than waking life had known), The kings of Thought ! not crowned until the grave. When Agamemnon sinks into the tomb, The beggar Homer...
Página 25 - Ye ever-living and imperial Souls, Who rule us from the page in which ye breathe, All that divide us from the clod ye gave ! — Law — Order — Love — Intelligence — the Sense Of Beauty — Music and the Minstrel's wreath ! — What were our wanderings if without your goals ? As air and light, the glory ye dispense Becomes our being — who of us can tell What he had been, had Cadmus never taught...
Página 135 - Andalusian horse, and, rising early, I forced myself to ride out daily, in all weathers, for nine or ten hours, till it grew dark. I returned home sufficiently fatigued to ensure a good appetite and a sound sleep. All my life through...

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