 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1907 - 504 pages
...there would be no heroes if there were a police,' said Coningsby ; ' but I believe that civilisation is only fatal to minstrels, and that is the reason...engagement.' This was said about a week after the dinner at Sidonia' a, by Lord Montacute to the duchess. ' That terrible yacht ! ' thought the duchess. Her Grace,... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - History - 1988 - 326 pages
...example of the [now] desolate countries. All is race; there is no other truth. (148-9) Sidonia adds that "the decay of a race is an inevitable necessity, unless it lives in deserts and never mixes its blood" (i 50). The gist of this remark is partly explained by Sidonia's earlier account of his family history.... | |
 | Sophie Gilmartin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 320 pages
...race is the same; why are not the results the same?' Sidonia replies: 'Because it is worn out. . . Why do not the Ethiopians build another Thebes or...unless it lives in deserts and never mixes its blood.' (p. 150) With a mixture of Norman and Anglo-Saxon blood in his veins, Tancred may be from a pure aristocratic... | |
 | Ranen Omer-Sherman - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 232 pages
...Victorian racialized sentimentality and professed admiration for Arabian insularity: "The decay of race is an inevitable necessity unless it lives in deserts and never mixes blood" (150). In particular (often resembling the discourse of early Zionists), the English travel... | |
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The decay of a race is an inevitable necessity, unless it lives in deserts and never mixes its blood.' CHAPTER XV. ' I AM sorry, my dear mother, that I cannot accompany you ; but I must go down to my yacht this morning, and on my return from Greenwich... 
