Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales: Tancred, or, The new crusade |
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Seite 142 - 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.
Seite 28 - His lordship, singularly averse to letter writing, and especially to long letter writing, used generally in reply to say that, in the course of a day or two, he should be in their part of the world, and would talk the matter over with them. And, indeed, nothing was more amusing than to see Lord Eskdale, imperturbable, yet not heedless, with his peculiar calmness, something between that of a Turkish pacha and an English jockey, standing up with his back to the fire and his hands in his pockets, and...
Seite 263 - Affghans is by Persia and by the Arabs. We will acknowledge the Empress of India as our suzerain, and secure for her the Levantine coast. If she like, she shall have Alexandria as she now has Malta : it could be arranged. Your queen is young ; she has an avenir. Aberdeen and Sir Peel will never give her this advice ; their. habits are formed. They are too old, too ruses.
Seite 390 - Whitechapel market, purchases some willow boughs for which he has previously given a commission, and which are brought, probably, from one of the neighbouring rivers of Essex, hastens home, cleans out the yard of his miserable tenement, builds his bower, decks it, even profusely, with the finest flowers and fruits that he can procure, the myrtle and the citron never forgotten, and hangs its roof with variegated lamps. After the service of his synagogue, he sups late with his wife and his children...
Seite 309 - Unhappy Asia! Do you call it unhappy Asia ! This land of divine deeds and divine thoughts ! Its slumber is more vital than the waking life of the rest of the globe, as the dream of genius is more precious than the vigils of ordinary men. Unhappy Asia, do you call it? It is the unhappiness of Europe over which I mourn.
Seite 291 - The equality of man can only be accomplished by the sovereignty of God. The longing for fraternity can never be satisfied but under the sway of a common father.
Seite 169 - Europe ; the greatest of legislators, the greatest of administrators, and the greatest of reformers ; what race, extinct or living, can produce three such men as these ! The last light is extinguished in the village of Bethany. ' The wailing breeze has become a moaning wind ; a white...
Seite 150 - The Spaniards then conquered Mexico, and now they cannot govern it." " So much for race," said Vavasour. " The race is the same ; why are not the results the same ?" " Because it is worn out," said Sidonia. "Why do not the Ethiopians build another Thebes, or excavate the colossal temples of the cataracts? The decay of a race is an inevitable necessity, unless it lives in deserts and never mixes its blood.
Seite 122 - 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...
Seite 171 - What has been the result ? In every city, town, village, and hamlet of that great kingdom, the divine image of the most illustrious of Hebrews has been again raised amid the homage of kneeling millions ; while, in the heart of its bright and witty capital, the nation has erected the most gorgeous of modern temples, and consecrated its marble and golden walls to the name, and memory, and celestial efficacy of a Hebrew woman. The country of which the solitary pilgrim, kneeling at this moment at the...