The CountessRichard Bentley, 1840 |
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acquainted affair appeared Beaufort beautiful believe Berlin blow bosom Brandenbourg carriage character chateau cher Claude Wyndham Claude's Count Carolan countenance Countess coward cried crowd danger Danton daugh dear death Denham Digby door dress duellist eyes face father fear feeling fellow felt fool France gazed gentleman girl groschen hand happiness heard heart Heaven honour hope hour instantly insult knew Kühl Lady Beverly laugh Lavalle leave letter Lippe look Lord Elkington Madame Wharton manner Mary Mary Digby mean mind Monsieur mother never Nimeguen once pale passed passion perceived perhaps person pleasure poor prison racter received rendered reply Rossi scarcely scene seemed servant silent smile society soul stood stranger struck tell thalers thing thought tion trembling turned uncon voice walk whist wish word wretched young
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170 ページ - Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
181 ページ - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
288 ページ - ... a man, poverty, if not the very worst, is, as society is constructed, the most difficult to endure with cheerfulness, and the most full of bitter humiliations and pains. Sickness has its periods of convalescence, and even guilt of repentance and reformation. For the loss of friends, time affords relief, and religion and philosophy open consolation. But poverty is unremitting misery, perplexity, restlessness and shame. It is the vulture of Prometheus. It is the rock of Sisyphus. It throws over...
288 ページ - Perhaps of all the evils which can befal a man, poverty, if not the very worst, is, as society is constructed, the most difficult to endure with cheerfulness, and the most full of bitter humiliations and pains. Sickness has its periods of convalescence, and even guilt of repentance and reformation. For the loss of friends, time affords relief, and religion and philosophy open consolation. But poverty is unremitting misery, perplexity, restlessness and shame. It is the vulture of Prometheus. It is...
278 ページ - Oh ! let me hear, with bosom swelling, While she sighs o'er time that's past ; Oh ! let me weep, while she is telling Of joys that pine, and pangs that last. And now, O Sleep, while grief is streaming, Let thy balm sweet peace restore, While fearful Hope through tears is beaming, Soothe to rest that wakes no more.
1 ページ - ... this interesting tale has suggested the observations which we have just made ; and we think our readers, who shall examine the book, will sustain our opinion of the great increase of power which he has manifested in its composition. The intention of the writer, as stated in his short Preface, was " to illustrate a principle, and to record his protest against a useless and barbarous custom, which, to the shame of his own country, exists there in a less modified form, than the good sense and good...
278 ページ - TO SLEEP. 0 Sleep, awhile thy power suspending, Weigh not yet my eyelid down, For Mem'ry, see ! with eve attending, Claims a moment for her own. 1 know her by her robe of mourning, I know her by her faded light ; When faithful with the gloom returning, She comes to bid a sad good night.
289 ページ - ... enjoy them. The poor man in society is almost a felon. The cold openly sneer and the arrogant insult with impunity. The very earth joins his enemies and spreads 'verdant glades and tempting woods where his foot may never tread. The very sky, with a human malice, when his fellow-beings have turned him beneath its dome, bites him with bitter winds and drenches him with pitiless tempests. He almost ceases to be a man, and yet he is lower than the brutes ; for they are clothed and fed and have their...
248 ページ - German cuisine plays the devil with one's stomach. Won't you smoke ?" Claude did not answer. He was reading the note he had just received which struck his nerves and soul with an agony of horror and grief, traced as it was by one now in the grave.
20 ページ - ... Our hero's name, it should be mentioned, is Mr. Wyndham. In the course of conversation, the interesting and important fact is brought to light, that Count Carolan has a beautiful daughter, at the enchanting age of eighteen ; and that she is already engaged to a young English nobleman, Lord Elkington, "about two-and-twenty ; a fashionable, elegant young man, of distinguished manners, and very fond of Ida,