Godolphin [by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton]. |
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affection ambition answered asked beauty believe breathed bright called CHAPTER character charm common Constance conversation cried dark daughter dear death deep desire dream eyes face fancy Fanny father fear feel felt gave gaze genius give Godolphin hand happy heard heart hope hour imagination interest Italy Lady Erpingham least leave less letter light lips live look Lord Lucilla mean mind nature never night object once passed passion pause Percy perhaps person play pleasure political poor present proud Radclyffe rich round Saville scene seemed seen smile society soft soul speak spirit stance stars strange talk tell thee thing thou thought tion true truth turned Vernon voice whole wild wish woman young
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Page 30 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 31 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 33 - Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew God's altar to disparage and displace For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn His odious offerings, and adore the gods Whom he had vanquished. After these appeared A crew who, under names of old renown— Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train— With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human.
Page 131 - I know not — guess not : only this shadowy and chilling sentiment unaccountably creeps over me. Every one has known a similar strange , indistinct feeling at certain times and places, and with a similar inability to trace the cause. And yet, is it not singular that in poetry, which wears most feelings to an echo , I have never met with any attempt to describe it?
Page 167 - the best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Godolphin [by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton]. Godolphin [by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton], Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) |
| Author | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) |
| Published | 1833 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 4 Apr 2006 |
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