 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 páginas
...a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman — was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered and muttered and...was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. I crossed the mountains, but it was the same ; so I went a little farther, and settled myself by the... | |
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 páginas
...a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman — was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered and muttered and...was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. I crossed the mountains, but it was the same ; so I went a little farther, and settled myself by the... | |
 | 1880 - 888 páginas
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that if what was whispered, and muttered, and...England; if false, England was unfit for me. I withdrew." The separation from his wife, and the departure from England, mark a stage in B.'s genius. A new element... | |
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 páginas
...a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman — was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered and muttered and murmured was true, I was unfit for Enf' O land ; if false, England was unfit for me. I withdrew ; but this was not enough. In other countries... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 604 páginas
...Italian." On the same page I find the following note: " What was rumoured of me in that language ? If true, I was unfit for England : if false, England was unfit for me : — ' There is s world elsewhere.' I have never regretted for a moment that country, but often that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 páginas
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman—was tainted. he cave; * Save where Tritonia's airy shrine adorns...the wave; Save o'er some warrior's half-forgotten lakes—I was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. I crossed the mountains, but it was the... | |
 | 1883 - 778 páginas
...a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman — was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered and muttered and...unfit for me. I withdrew ; but this was not enough, fn other countries — in Switzerland, in the shadow of the Alps, and by the blue depth of the lakes... | |
 | Gustave H. Doret - 1883 - 172 páginas
...William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured (6) was true, I was unfit for England ; if false, England...not enough. In other countries, in Switzerland, in (7) the shadow of the Alps, and by the blue depths of the lakes, I was pursued and breathed upon by... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1883 - 396 páginas
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered and muttered and...for England ; if false, England was unfit for me.' As though he were stricken with a loathsome disease, to be caught from the touch of his hand, the exhalation... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1885 - 456 páginas
...with which he was assailed he bowed, and in 1816 he left England never to return. As he himself justly said : " I felt that if what was whispered and muttered...; if false, England was unfit for me; I withdrew." He went first to Switzerland, next to Italy, and finally to Greece. The period between his departure... | |
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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour : my name, which had been a knightly or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and... 
