Contarini Fleming: A Psychological RomanceG. Routledge, 1845 - 461 Seiten |
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acquaintance Adrianople Albanian Alcesté Ali Pacha amid Amurath ancient answered appeared Armenian arms arrived Baroness beautiful beheld believe castle CHAPTER character charming Christiana companion Contarini Contarini Fleming countenance Countess Croia dark dear Delfini delightful divan dream dress Egeria entered Epirots Epirus Eremite eunuch everything excited exclaimed existence eyes fancy father feel felt Fleming fortune gazed Giaours gondola hand happy head heard heart heaven honour hope horse Hunniades inquired Iskander Janissaries Lady Iduna Lausanne light looked Mahomed Manstein meditated mind morning mountains mused Museus nature never Nicæus night noble observed once palace passed passion perhaps Prince of Athens replied returned rose round rushed scene seated seemed seneschal shout silent smile soon speak strange stranger suddenly sweet thought threw tion Turkish Turks unhappy Venice voice walked wild wish wonder young
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Seite 5 - They were called my brothers, but Nature gave the lie to the reiterated assertion. There was no similitude between us. Their blue eyes, their flaxen hair, and their white visages claimed no kindred with my Venetian countenance.
Seite 185 - I tore open the leaves with a blended feeling of desire and fear, which I can yet remember. I felt prepared for the worst. I felt that such grave censors, however impossible it was to deny the decided genius of the work, and however eager they might be to hail...
Seite 114 - ... she had a taste in dress I encouraged her opinions. Unconscious that she was at once my lay figure and my mirror, she loaded me with presents, and announced to all her coterie that I was the most delightful young man of her acquaintance. From all this it may easily be suspected that at the age of fifteen I had unexpectedly become one of the most affected, conceited, and intolerable atoms that ever peopled the sunbeam of society. A few days before I quitted home for the university, I paid a farewell...
Seite 372 - Here let me pass my life in the study and the creation of the beautiful. Such is my desire ; but whether it will be my career is, I feel, doubtful.
Seite 373 - Circumstances are beyond the control of man ; but his conduct is in his own power. The great event is as sure as that I am now penning this prophecy of its occurrence. With us it rests whether it shall be welcomed by wisdom or by ignorance, whether its beneficent results shall be accelerated by enlightened minds, or retarded by our dark passions. What is the arch of the conqueror, what the laurel of the poet ! I think of the infinity of space, I feel my nothingness.
Seite 112 - Talk to women, talk to women as much as you can. This is the best school. This is the way to gain fluency, because you need not care what you say, and had better not be sensible. They, too, will rally you on many points, and as they are women you will not be offended. Nothing is of so much importance and of so much use to a young man entering life as to be well criticised by women.
Seite 101 - Few ideas are correct ones, and what are correct no one can ascertain ; but with words we govern men.
Seite 155 - What were all those great poets of whom we now talk so much, what were they in their life-time ? The most miserable of their species. Depressed, doubtful, obscure, or involved in petty quarrels and petty persecutions, often unappreciated, utterly uninfluential, beggars, flatterers of men unworthy even of their recognition — what a train of disgustful incidents, what a record of degrading circumstances, is the life of a great poet ! A man of great energies aspires that they should be felt in his...