Ernest Maltravers Or The Eleusinia, Volumen8Saunders and Otley, ... Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, ... Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin., 1844 - 477 páginas |
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... cannot purchase ! And yet , Maltravers , you are ambitious ! -life moves too slowly for you ! you would push on the wheels of the clock ! -Fool- brilliant fool ! -you are eighteen and a poet ! ERNEST MALTRAVERS . 25 25.
... cannot purchase ! And yet , Maltravers , you are ambitious ! -life moves too slowly for you ! you would push on the wheels of the clock ! -Fool- brilliant fool ! -you are eighteen and a poet ! ERNEST MALTRAVERS . 25 25.
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... ambition of an author . . . . . He had written well and gracefully - but his success , though respectable , did not satisfy his aspirations . The fact is , that a new school of literature ruled the public despite the critics a school ...
... ambition of an author . . . . . He had written well and gracefully - but his success , though respectable , did not satisfy his aspirations . The fact is , that a new school of literature ruled the public despite the critics a school ...
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... ambition- the boy's spirit seemed quite broken - and the visit of a political character , the mention of a political work , drove him at once into his solitary chamber . At length his mental disease took a new turn . He became , of a ...
... ambition- the boy's spirit seemed quite broken - and the visit of a political character , the mention of a political work , drove him at once into his solitary chamber . At length his mental disease took a new turn . He became , of a ...
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... ambitious and intellectual , by the great democratic ocean which roared below and around it . An immense distinction ... ambition ; but so strong and universal a respect for wealth , that the finest spirit grew avaricious , griping , and ...
... ambitious and intellectual , by the great democratic ocean which roared below and around it . An immense distinction ... ambition ; but so strong and universal a respect for wealth , that the finest spirit grew avaricious , griping , and ...
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... ambitious by and by ; but I think it a bad calculation not to make the most of youth . At four or five - and- thirty , it will be time enough to consider what one ought to be at fifty ! " 66 CHAPTER IV . Most dangerous Is that ...
... ambitious by and by ; but I think it a bad calculation not to make the most of youth . At four or five - and- thirty , it will be time enough to consider what one ought to be at fifty ! " 66 CHAPTER IV . Most dangerous Is that ...
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Página 68 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song...
Página 121 - Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair...
Página 145 - I, alas! Have lived but on this earth a few sad years And so my lot was ordered, that a father First turned the moments of awakening life To drops, each poisoning youth's sweet hope; and then Stabbed with one blow my everlasting soul; And my untainted fame; and even that peace Which sleeps within the core of the heart's heart; But the wound was not mortal; so my hate...
Página 380 - twas visible— I saw not, but I felt that it was there. That which I saw was the revealed abode Of Spirits in beatitude: my heart Swelled in my breast—' I have been dead,' I cried,
Página 319 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Página 64 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Página 109 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank* Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Página 116 - When coarser souls are wrapt in sleep,— Sweet spirit, meet me then. There is an hour when holy dreams, Through slumber, fairest glide; And in that mystic hour, it seems Thou shouldst be by my side. The thoughts of thee too sacred are For daylight's common beam ; — I can but know thee as my star, My angel, and my dream...
Página 184 - Began to bend down his admiring eyes On all her touching looks and qualities, Turning their shapely sweetness every way Till 'twas his food and habit day by day.
Página 116 - Bend on me then thy tender eyes, as stars look on the sea. For thoughts, like waves that glide by night, are stillest when they shine , Mine earthly love lies hushed in light, beneath the heaven of thine.