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Strona 161
... of action on her- self ; and , after much meditation , she resolved to con- fide her scruples to one who , of all whom she knew , " 162 THE BANKER . possessed the highest character for 02 ALICE S NEW DESTINATION. ...
... of action on her- self ; and , after much meditation , she resolved to con- fide her scruples to one who , of all whom she knew , " 162 THE BANKER . possessed the highest character for 02 ALICE S NEW DESTINATION. ...
Strona 162
... banker ; he had once represented the town in parliament , and , retiring from disinclination for the late hours and onorous fatigues even of an unreformed House of Commons , he still possessed an influence to return one , if not both ...
... banker ; he had once represented the town in parliament , and , retiring from disinclination for the late hours and onorous fatigues even of an unreformed House of Commons , he still possessed an influence to return one , if not both ...
Strona 163
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. THE BANKER . 163 conscience and the interest ; and he was a kind of negotiator in the reciprocal diplomacy of earth and heaven . But our banker was really a charitable man , and a benevolent man , and a ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. THE BANKER . 163 conscience and the interest ; and he was a kind of negotiator in the reciprocal diplomacy of earth and heaven . But our banker was really a charitable man , and a benevolent man , and a ...
Strona 164
... banker's grave and saturnine countenance ex- hibited a slight degree of embarrassment at the case submitted to him . He began brushing away , with the cuff of his black coat , some atoms of dust that had settled on his drab smallclothes ...
... banker's grave and saturnine countenance ex- hibited a slight degree of embarrassment at the case submitted to him . He began brushing away , with the cuff of his black coat , some atoms of dust that had settled on his drab smallclothes ...
Strona 165
... banker , with a slight smile . " A deviation from truth cannot be incurred without some forfeiture of strict duty . " " Not in any case ? Alas , I was afraid so ! " said Mrs. Leslie , despondingly . " In any case ! Oh , there may be ...
... banker , with a slight smile . " A deviation from truth cannot be incurred without some forfeiture of strict duty . " " Not in any case ? Alas , I was afraid so ! " said Mrs. Leslie , despondingly . " In any case ! Oh , there may be ...
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Strona 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.
Strona 117 - 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...
Strona 122 - Alas! what boots it with uncessant 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?
Strona 86 - gan the Palmer thus — ' Most wretched man That to affections dost the bridle lend: In their beginning they are weak and wan, But soon, through suffrance, growe to fearfull end ; While they are weak, betimes with them contend.
Strona 71 - I see you read, Maltravers," said Ferrers, carelessly turning over the volumes on the table ; " all very right : we should begin life with books ; they multiply the sources of employment ; so does capital ; but capital is of no use unless we live on the interest — books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Strona 62 - But he went first to Oxford." " Humph ! What a fine young man he is ! " " Not so tall as Ernest , but — " " A handsomer face," said Cleveland. " He is a son to be proud of in one way, as I hope Ernest will be in another. Will you show me your new hunter?
Strona 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...
Strona 135 - It cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind, that application is the price to be paid for mental acquisitions, and that it is as absurd to expect them without it, as to hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed.
Strona 122 - People talk about thinking — but for my part I never think, except when I sit down to write. " I believe this is not a very common case, for people who don't write think as well as people who do, but connected , severe , well-developed thought , in contradistinction to vague meditation , must be connected with some tangible plan or object; and therefore we must be either...
Strona 195 - The public buildings are few, and for the most part, mean ; the monuments of antiquity, not comparable to those which the pettiest town in Italy can boast of; the palaces are sad rubbish; the houses of our peers and princes are shabby and shapeless heaps of brick. But what of all this ? the spirit of London is in her thoroughfares — her population ! What wealth — what cleanliness — what order — what animation ! How majestic, and yet how vivid, is the life that runs through her myriad veins...
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