A Nineteenth Century Reality: a Novel of the Day, Etc, Volume 1

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Page 137 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 110 - We find it impossible to avoid mis-takes even in determining who has committed a single criminal act, and the problem how far a man is to be held responsible for the unforeseen con-sequences of his own deed, is one that might well make us tremble to look into it.
Page 6 - ... in the grey gloom of that Michaelmas evening walked the aforesaid maiden, and (what we had not bargained for) a gentle youth beside her. The light between the lapping boughs and leaves — whose summer whisper grew hoarse in autumn's rustle — the clouded light fell charily, but showed the figures comely, as either could wish of the other. The maiden's face was turned away, but one hand lay in her lover's ; with the other she was drawing close the loose folds of her mantle — her flushing cheek...
Page 115 - ... really could not sacrifice himself to wind red tape for the nation. Then he strolled on through the other apartments, saying a few words to his myriad acquaintances, listened with Sabretasche and Violet to a duo of Mario and Grisi's, and went back to the ball-room just in time for Alma's waltz. As he put his arm round her, and whirled her into the circle, he remembered, with a shudder at the memory, that the last woman he had waltzed with was the Trefusis. In India wilder sports and more exciting...
Page 35 - ... greatness of Orion reigns in its fullest glory, and, watching for the dawn, there hangs that sad star which we call the Serpent's Heart, and the Arabian astrologers called The Solitary One. The stars were still out when Bruno with each dawn rose from his short, troubled, lonely sleep, and went out to his work as was his wont. He worked early and late. There was nothing else for him to do. He was consumed with impatience and anxiety, but he laboured on in his fields. To leave them never occurred...
Page 135 - The volume — a handsome quarto — gives a better idea of the scenery of one of the most lovely islands in the world than we have hitherto obtained from books of travel.
Page 126 - Don't you know there is many a true word spoken in jest, and I do not wish to hear what my future fate even may be,

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