Henrietta Temple: A Love Story, Τόμος 2

Εξώφυλλο
 

Επιλεγμένες σελίδες

Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων

Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις

Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα

Σελίδα 186 - In exactly ten minutes it is in the power of every man to free himself from all the tumult of the world ; the pangs of love, the throbs of ambition, the wear and tear of play, the recriminating boudoir, the conspiring club, the rattling hell ; and find himself in a sublime sylvan solitude superior to the cedars of Lebanon, and inferior only in extent to the chestnut forests of Anatolia.
Σελίδα 143 - Is there a more gay and graceful spectacle in the world than Hyde Park, at the end of a long sunny morning in the merry month of May or June ? Where can we see such beautiful women, such gallant cavaliers, such fine horses, and such brilliant equipages ? The scene, too. is worthy of such agreeable accessories : the groves, the gleaming waters, and the triumphal arches. In the distance, the misty heights of Surrey, and the bowery glades of Kensington.
Σελίδα 130 - The world cannot rob us of that, and if it be better to live than to die, it is better to live in a good humour than a bad one. If a man be convinced that existence is the greatest pleasure, his happiness may be increased by good fortune, but it will be essentially independent of it.
Σελίδα 133 - Nature had endowed me, I flung myself into the ring ? Who should be a gladiator if I were not ? Is that a crime ? What if, at a later period, with a brain for calculation which none can rival, I invariably succeeded in that in which the greatest men in the country fail ! Am I to be branded because I have made half a million by a good book...

Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας