The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Coningsby. Henrietta TempleF. Warne & Company, 1866 |
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admired amusement arrived Beaumanoir beautiful believe Bond Sharpe Buckhurst Captain Armine Castle CHAPTER character charming cher circumstances companion Coningsby Count Mirabel countenance daughter delight dine dinner Duchess Ducie Duke Edith England entered Eton exclaimed eyes fancy father favour favourite feelings fellow Ferdinand Armine fortune gentleman glance Glaston grace grandfather guests hand happy heart Hellingsley Henrietta Temple Henry Sydney honour hope hour House of Commons inquired Ionia Katherine Lady Armine Lady Bellair Lady Everingham Lady Monmouth Lady Wallinger live looked Lord Eskdale Lord Monmouth Lord Montfort Lucretia Madame Colonna Marquess marry Millbank mind Miss Grandison Miss Temple morning mother never Oswald party passion perhaps political replied Rigby scarcely scene seat seemed Sidonia Sir Ratcliffe smile speak spirit sweet Tadpole Taper tell thing thought tion to-morrow tone Villebecque voice Whig wish woman young
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Página 34 - ... destiny must be entwined ; that there is no more joy but in her joy, no sorrow but when she grieves; that in her sigh of love, in her smile of fondness, hereafter is all bliss ; to feel our flaunty ambition fade away like a shrivelled gourd before her vision ; to feel fame a juggle and posterity a lie ; and to be prepared at once, for this great object, to forfeit and fling away all former hopes, ties, schemes, views ; to violate in her favour every duty of society ; — this is a lover, and...
Página 7 - The coach stops here half an hour, gentlemen: dinner quite ready!" 'Tis a delightful sound. And what a dinner! What a profusion of substantial delicacies! What mighty and iristinted rounds of beef! What vast and marble-veined ribs! What gelatinous veal pies! What colossal hams! Those are evidently prize cheeses! And how invigorating is the perfume of those various and variegated pickles! Then the bustle emulating the plenty; the ringing of bells, the clash of thoroughfare, the summoning of ubiquitous...
Página 330 - Walsingham was advanced to the dignity of a baron of the realm, by the title of Lord Armine, of Armine, in the county of Nottingham.
Página 39 - I thought they had better keep quiet. Vere is with Millbank, and we are going back to Coningsby directly ; but we thought it best to show, finding on our arrival that there were all sorts of rumours about. I think it will be best to report at once to my tutor, for he will be sure to hear something.
Página 87 - Ah! that fatal thirty-seven, which reminds me of Byron, greater even as a man than a writer. Was it experience that guided the pencil of Raphael when he painted the palaces of Rome? He, too, died at thirty-seven.
Página 87 - Banier himself, after all his miracles, died at forty-five. Cortes was little more than thirty when he gazed upon the golden cupolas of Mexico. When Maurice of Saxony died at thirty-two, all Europe acknowledged the loss of the greatest captain and the profoundest statesman of the age.
Página 87 - Lepanto at twenty-five, the greatest battle of modern time ; had it not been for the jealousy of Philip, the next year he would have been Emperor of Mauritania. Gaston de Foix was only twenty-two when he stood a victor on the plain of Ravenna. Every one remembers Cond£ and Rocroy at the same age.
Página 160 - Not of political corruption. But it is an age of social disorganisation, far more dangerous in its consequences, because far more extensive. You may have a corrupt government and a pure community ; you may have a corrupt community and a pure administration. Which would you elect ? ' ' Neither,' said Coningsby ; ' I wish to see a people full of faith, and a government full of duty.
Página 35 - ... maddening impulse now pervaded his frame ? A storm seemed raging in his soul, a mighty wind dispelling in its course the sullen clouds and vapours of long years. Silent he was indeed, for he was speechless ; though the big drop that quivered on his brow and the slight foam that played upon his lip proved the difficult triumph of passion over expression. But, as the wind clears the heaven, passion eventually tranquillises the soul. The tumult of his mind gradually subsided; the flitting memories,...
Página 188 - RCSSELL has that degree of imagination, which, though evinced rather in sentiment than expression, still enables him to generalise from the details of his reading and experience ; and to take those comprehensive views, which, however easily depreciated by ordinary men in an age of routine, are indispensable to a statesman in the conjunctures in which we live. He understands, therefore, his position ; and he has the moral intrepidity which prompts him ever to dare that which his intellect assures...