The Novels of Lord Lytton: Lucretia

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Athenaeum society, 1897

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Strona 322 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war...
Strona 412 - There lives not a man on earth, out of a lunatic asylum," says Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, and the words should ring in every young man's ears, " who has not in him the power to do good. What can writers, haranguers, or speculators do more than that? Have you ever entered a cottage, ever travelled in a coach, ever talked with a peasant in the field, or loitered with a mechanic at the loom, and not found that each of those men had a talent you had not, knew some things you knew not? The most useless...
Strona 376 - ... shrouded in herself, which gave her more intimate and vital union with all the influences of the universe; a companion to her loneliness, an angel hymning low to her own listening soul. This made her enjoyment of nature in its merest trifles exquisite and profound; this gave to her...
Strona 453 - Who provideth for the raven his food? When his young ones cry unto God, They wander for lack of meat.

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