 At school, friendship is a passion. It entrances the being; it tears the soul. All loves of after-life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness; no bliss so absorbing, no pangs of jealousy or despair so crushing and so keen! What tenderness and...  Coningsby, Or, The New Generation - Page 17by Benjamin Disraeli - 1844 - 159 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1844 - 340 pages
...to what set they are in, or what family they are of, how much they have a year, or where they live. Now on no spirit had the influence of Coningsby, already...passion. It entrances the being ; it tears the soul. All loves of after life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing, no... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...beat with tumult.' The attachment of schoolboys is depicted in this piece of fantastic jargon : — ' At ' school, friendship is a passion. It entrances the being ; it ' tears the soul. All love of after life can never bring its rap' ture or its wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing ;... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 742 pages
...common sense, is deaf to the remonstrance of reason, and is blind to his own insignificance. GLEANINGS. At school friendship is a passion. It entrances the being ; it tears the soul. All loves of after life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing, no... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...beat with tumult.' The attachment of schoolboys is depicted in this piece of fantastic jargon : — ' At ' school, friendship is a passion. It entrances the being ; it * tears the soul. All love of after life can never bring its rap' ture or its wretchedness; no bliss so absorbing; no... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...180 181 quoted from his two prefaces. We have just opened " Coningsby," and this strikes our eye : " ce of treaties, why may it not be equally required of Hanover ? If it be an act All loves of after life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing, no... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1866 - 730 pages
...to what set they are in, or what family they are of, how much they have a-ycar, or where they live. Now, on no spirit had the influence of Coningsby,...passion. It entrances the being ; it tears the soul. All loves of after-life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing, no... | |
 | John McGilchrist - Statesmen - 1868 - 140 pages
...distortion." What sane man can set down the following, from " Coningsby," as aught but nonsense ? " At school friendship is a passion. It entrances the being ; it tears the soul. All love of after-life can never bring its rapture or its wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing, no... | |
 | George Charles L. Tottenham - 1868 - 380 pages
...and wandered dreamily back to his own rooms. 'At school,' Mr. Disraeli tells us in " Coningsby," ' friendship is a passion ; it entrances the being, it tears the soul. All love of after-life can never bring its rapture, or its wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing, no... | |
 | Isa Blagden - 1869 - 330 pages
...And what is more passionate than a school friendship, either in boys or girls ? As Disraeli says : " At school, friendship is a passion. It entrances the being; it tears the soul. All loves of after-life can never bring its rapture or its -wretchedness ; no bliss so absorbing, no... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1870 - 650 pages
...to what set they are in, or what family they are of, how much they have a-year, or where they live. Now, on no spirit had the influence of Coningsby,...one could suspect except its votary or its victim. what ecstatic present and romantic future; what bitter estrangements and what melting reconciliations;... | |
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