The Mirror of the CenturyJ. Lane, 1906 - 268 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The Mirror of the Century (Classic Reprint) <span dir=ltr>Walter Frewen Lord</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2018 |
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admirable Agnes Grey amusing Ansarey Anthony Trollope appears artist better Bill Sikes Brontë called character Charles Dickens Charles Kingsley Charles Reade Charlotte Brontë charming Church Coningsby detail Disraeli Dombey Duke Ellis Bell England English Englishmen fact Felix Holt genius gentleman George Eliot girl Grandcourt Gwendolen hand Hebrew Henry Kingsley hero honour House human incidents influence inquire interesting Jane Austen Kingsley's lady less lived look Lord Beaconsfield's Lothair Lytton manners married middle classes Middlemarch mind Miss Austen's murder natural never nineteenth century noble Norris novelist novels passage perhaps phrase Plantagenet Palliser plot political portraits probably produced question Ravenshoe readers realise recognised remember romance scene social sportsman story style success Tancred tell Thackeray Thackeray's things thought tion to-day Trollope's Vivian Grey women wonderful words write written wrote young
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עמוד 151 - with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!' 'Yes, we have fallen off deplorably,
עמוד 162 - Courts, and of all authorities in all places under all names soever, where false pretences are made, and where injustice is done. Call the death by any name Your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally — inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only— Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.
עמוד 11 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
עמוד 25 - It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots, and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness. Let us fling away the chalk, and boldly say, — the victim is spotted, but it is not therefore in vain that his mighty heart is laid on the altar of men's highest hopes.
עמוד 144 - ... cooing close up to his heart, with soft outstretched fluttering wings. This is what he has asked for every day and hour for eighteen years. This is what he pined after. Here it is — the summit, the end — the last page of the third volume. Good-bye, Colonel — God bless you, honest William ! — Farewell, dear Amelia — Grow green again, tender little parasite, round the rugged old oak to which you cling...
עמוד 160 - A debate is not what a debate used to be; the House is not what the House used to be ; even a Cabinet is not what it formerly was. He perceives with astonishment, that supposing the present Government to be overthrown, the limited choice -of the Crown, in the formation of a new Ministry, would lie between Lord Coodle and Sir Thomas Doodle — supposing it to be impossible for the Duke of Foodie to act with Goodie...
עמוד 148 - Away, with a shriek, and a roar, and a rattle, from the town, burrowing among the dwellings of men and making the streets hum, flashing out into the meadows for a moment, mining in through the damp earth, booming on in darkness and heavy air, bursting out again into the sunny day so bright and wide; away, with a shriek, and a roar, and a rattle, through the fields, through the woods, through the corn, through the hay, through the chalk, through the mould, through the clay, through the rock...
עמוד 95 - I may as well say at once that, for this circumstance, it is out of my power to apologize, deeming it, myself, a rational plan to write words at full length. The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does — what feeling it spares — what horror it conceals. With regard to the rusticity of WUTHERING HEIGHTS,...
עמוד 88 - No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her.
עמוד 224 - You go with your family, sir, like a gentleman; you are not to consider your opinions, like a philosopher or a political adventurer.' 'Yes, sir,' said Coningsby, with animation, 'but men going with their families like gentlemen, and losing sight of every principle on which the society of this country ought to be established produced the Reform Bill.