The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Sybil, v. 2. Tancred, v. 1M. Walter Dunne, 1904 - English literature |
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Page 184 - His life was a gyration of energetic curiosity; an insatiable whirl of social celebrity. There was not a congregation of sages and philosophers in any part of Europe which he did not attend as a brother. He was present at the camp of Kalisch in his yeomanry uniform, and assisted at the festivals of Barcelona in an Andalusian jacket. He was everywhere, and at everything; he had gone down in a diving-bell and gone up in a balloon.
Page 191 - The present work advances another step in the same emprise. From the state of Parties it now would draw public thought to the state of the People whom those parties for two centuries have governed. The comprehension and the cure of this greater theme depend upon the same agencies as the first : it is the past alone that can explain the present, and it is youth that alone can mould the remedial future.
Page 183 - Mr. Vavasour was a social favourite; a poet and a real poet, and a troubadour, as well as a member of Parliament; travelled, sweet-tempered, and goodTANCRED 183 hearted; amusing and clever. With catholic sympathies and an eclectic turn of mind, Mr. Vavasour saw something good in everybody and everything, which is certainly amiable, and perhaps just, but disqualifies a man in some degree for the business of life, which requires for its conduct a certain degree of prejudice.
Page 191 - I first took the occasion to intimate, and then to develop to the first assembly of my countrymen that I ever had the honour to address, these convictions. They have been misunderstood, as is ever for a season the fate of Truth, and they have obtained for their promulgator much misrepresentation, as must ever be the lot of those who will not follow the beaten track of a fallacious custom. But Time, that brings all things, has brought also to the mind of England some suspicion that the idols they...
Page 158 - Then,' said Tancred, with animation, ' seeing how things are — that I am born in an age and in a country divided between infidelity on one side, and an anarchy of creeds on the other ; with none competent to guide me, yet feeling that I must believe, for I hold that duty cannot exist without faith : is it so wild as some would think...
Page 50 - Lord Eskdale entered , and when he perceived who was his visitor, he rose immediately, bowed very low, and then sighed. "Prevost thinks we are not exactly appreciated here," said Lord Eskdale. Leander bowed again, and still sighed. "Prevost does not understand the affair," continued Lord Eskdale. "Why I wished you to come down here, Leander, was not to receive the applause of my cousin and his guests , but to form their taste.
Page 192 - There is a whisper risrising in this country that loyalty is not a phrase, faith not a delusion, and popular liberty something more diffusive and substantial than the profane exercise of the sacred rights of sovereignty by political classes.
Page 1 - Tis a cluster of small streets of little houses, frequently intersected by mews, which here are numerous, and sometimes gradually, rather than abruptly, terminating in a ramification of those mysterious regions. Sometimes a group of courts develops itself, and you may even chance to find your way into a small market-place.
Page 121 - The decree went forth that labour was to cease until the Charter was the law of the land: the mine and the mill, the foundry and the loomshop, were, until that consummation, to be idle: nor was the mighty pause to be confined to these great enterprises. Every trade of every kind and description was to be...
Page 83 - Well, you know what to say,' said the gentleman in Downing Street. 'Tell them generally that they are quite mistaken; prove to them particularly that my only object has been to render protection more protective by making it practical, and divesting it of the surplusage of odium; that no foreign corn...