The Novels of Lord Lytton: My novelAthenaeum society, 1896 |
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amongst ashamed Audley Egerton Aulus Gellius Belvidere better called Camarina Captain Casino CAXTON CHAPTER child church Colonel Pompley cried dear dear Jane Digby Doctor donkey door DOSEWELL English Eton eyes face father feeling Frank gentleman Giacomo Hall hand handsome Harley Hazeldean head heart Heaven honor Italian Jackeymo knowledge lady land Lansmere Lenny Fairfield Lenny's Leonard Fairfield live looked Lord Bacon Lord L'Estrange M'Catchley marriage married matter mind Miss Jemima mother nature never Novel once Padrone parish Parson Dale paused philosopher PISISTRATUS poor pretty quoth Randal Leslie replied rich Richard Avenel round seemed Signor Riccabocca smile Sprott Squills Squire Squire's Stirn Stocks stood talk tell thing thought Tinker tion took town turned uncon village Violante voice walked widow wife woman word young
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407. oldal - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
186. oldal - ... and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two pence and gave them to the host, and said unto him ; ' Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
409. oldal - I have been in the deep : in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren : in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
336. oldal - Like the baseless fabric of a vision, Left not a wreck behind." He raised eyes swimming with all his native goodness towards the wise man, and dropped them gratefully on the infant peacemaker. Then he turned away his head and fairly wept. The parson was right: "O ye poor, have charity for the rich; O ye rich, respect the poor.
407. oldal - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator,...
183. oldal - The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
189. oldal - How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of heaven,' he replied also to them who asked, ' Who then shall be saved ?' 'The things which are impossible with men are possible with God:' that is, man left to his own temptations would fail; but, strengthened by God, he shall be saved. If thy riches are the tests of they trial, so may they also be the instruments of thy virtues.
182. oldal - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
94. oldal - " Why, sir, he is at Eton." " What sort of a boy is he ? " asked Mrs. Hazeldean. Frank hesitated, as if reflecting, and then answered — " They say he is the cleverest boy in the school. But then he saps." " In other words," said Mr. Dale, with proper parsonic gravity, "he understands that he was sent to school to learn his lessons, and he learns them. You call that sapping — I call it doing his duty. But pray, who and what is this Handal Leslie, that you look so discomposed, Squire ? " " Who...
348. oldal - At the first stroke of the pickaxe, it is ten to one but what you are taken up for a trespass. But the path up the mountain is a right of way uncontested. You may be safe at the summit, before (even if the owners are fools enough to let you) you could have levelled a yard. Cospetto!" quoth the doctor, "it is more than two thousand years ago since poor Plato began to level it, and the mountain is as high as ever!