Agnes de Mansfeldt: A Historical Tale, Band 1

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Saunders and Otley, 1836 - 387 Seiten
 

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Seite 199 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 226 - Mr. Bulwer's * Pilgrims of the Rhine* is a work which will delight the fanciful and imaginative, please the refined and philosophical, charm the gay, inform the intellectual, and absorb the feeling."— Literary Gazette. " We cannot help expressing our admiration of the taste and skill with which Mr. Bulwer has arranged his materials."—Athen&um. l* Mr. Bulwer'a splendid * Pilgrims of the Rhine' is a work of rich fancy, and full of those dreams which genius alone cau invest with reality."—Time*.
Seite 109 - And oh, may they learn to know what it is makes happiness ! that it does not consist, as too many fancy, in the imagination of .some good too distant to be reached — too large to be encircled in our hold, but that it is really formed of little things, flowers and sweets, that we never stay to notice in the...
Seite 135 - The sense of enjoyment is proportioned to the vivacity of the mind, and the thousand freshspringing sources of pleasure open to the more susceptible among human beings, far outbalance the power of that morbid tone of suffering which weighs down the dull.

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