Ernest Maltravers Or The EleusiniaJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1874 - 575 |
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Strona ix
... characters of great men . Though there is scarcely a page in this work episodical to the main design , there may be much that may seem to thee wearisome and prolix , if thou wilt VOL . I. 1 A ( ix ) not lend thyself , in a kindly spirit ...
... characters of great men . Though there is scarcely a page in this work episodical to the main design , there may be much that may seem to thee wearisome and prolix , if thou wilt VOL . I. 1 A ( ix ) not lend thyself , in a kindly spirit ...
Strona x
... character with the changes of time and fate ; but never wantonly rejecting those great principles by which alone we ... characters from real life , and would not X A WORD TO THE READER .
... character with the changes of time and fate ; but never wantonly rejecting those great principles by which alone we ... characters from real life , and would not X A WORD TO THE READER .
Strona xi
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. of my characters from real life , and would not unnecessarily seek other fountains when the Well of Truth was in my reach . The Author has said his say , he retreats once more into silence and into ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. of my characters from real life , and would not unnecessarily seek other fountains when the Well of Truth was in my reach . The Author has said his say , he retreats once more into silence and into ...
Strona xiv
... character . The third , which I now reprint , is " Ernest Maltravers , " the most mature , and , on the whole , the most comprehensive , of all that I have hitherto written . For the original idea , which , with humility , I will ven ...
... character . The third , which I now reprint , is " Ernest Maltravers , " the most mature , and , on the whole , the most comprehensive , of all that I have hitherto written . For the original idea , which , with humility , I will ven ...
Strona xvi
... character , the adventures or the humors , the errors or the good qualities , of Maltravers himself , I have nothing to do , except as the narrator and inventor . E. B. L. ERNEST MALTRAVERS . BOOK I. Τὸ γὰρ νεάζων ἐν τοιδισδε xvi ...
... character , the adventures or the humors , the errors or the good qualities , of Maltravers himself , I have nothing to do , except as the narrator and inventor . E. B. L. ERNEST MALTRAVERS . BOOK I. Τὸ γὰρ νεάζων ἐν τοιδισδε xvi ...
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