The People's Library, Volume 2M. M'Michael, 1842 - English fiction |
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admiration Amurath amusing appeared asked baron beautiful Beckendorff Carabas CHAPTER Churchill cold colour companion countenance Courtenaye dear delightful Epirus Essper George Ethel eunuch exclaimed eyes face fancy father fear feel Felix Lorraine felt Fitzloom gazed gentleman Giaours give grand-duke hand happy head heart Henrietta highness honour hope horse hour Hunniades Iduna Iskander janissaries John Conyers Lady Madeleine Lady Marchmont Lady Mary ladyship laugh light look Lord Harvey Lord Marchmont Lord Norbourne Madame Carolina marquess Master Rodolph Maynard mind Miss Fane morning nature ness never Nicæus night noble once pale party passed passion present prince Reisenberg replied rose round Rudesheimer seemed Sherborne Sievers silence Sir George Sir Jasper smile soon sorrow speak spirit Spittergen sure sweet talk tell thing thou thought tion uncle Violet Fane Vivian Grey voice Walter wish words young
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Page 49 - To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Page 49 - What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 68 - Sol through white curtains shot a timorous ray, And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day. Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake : Thrice rung the bell, the slipper knock'd the ground, And the press'd watch return'da silver sound.
Page 117 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page 221 - Like all great travellers," said Essper, " I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." " Have you any objection to go to the East again ?" asked Vivian. "It would require but little persuasion to lead me there.
Page 16 - I am no cold-blooded philosopher that would despise that, for which, in my opinion, men, real men, should alone exist. Power! Oh! what sleepless nights, what days of hot anxiety! what exertions of mind and body! what travel! what hatred! what fierce encounters! what dangers of all possible kinds, would I not endure with a joyous spirit to gain it!
Page 223 - They looked round on every side, and Hope gave way before the scene of desolation. Immense branches were shivered from the largest trees ; small ones were entirely stripped of their leaves ; the long grass was bowed to the earth ; the waters were whirled in eddies out of the little rivulets ; birds...
Page 11 - THE BAR — pooh ! law and bad jokes till we are forty ; and then, with the most brilliant success, the prospect of gout and a coronet. Besides, to succeed as an advocate, I must be a great lawyer, and to be a great lawyer I must give up my chance of being a great man.
Page 117 - Few save the poor feel for the poor ; The rich know not how hard It is to be of needful food And needful rest debarred.
Page 12 - At this moment, how many a powerful noble wants only wit to be a Minister ; and what wants Vivian Grey to attain the same end ? That noble's influence.