The Vivian Romance, Том 1

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Hurst and Blackett, 1870

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Стр. 286 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Стр. 248 - I wish that I could run away From House, and Court, and Levee, Where bearded men appear to-day Just Eton boys grown heavy, — That I could bask in childhood's sun And dance o'er childhood's roses, And find huge wealth in one pound one, Vast wit...
Стр. 89 - re wrong. — He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat ; With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought ; No courtier could, and scarcely woman can Gird more deceit within a petticoat : Pity he loved adventurous life's variety, He was so great a loss to good society.
Стр. 5 - Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale...
Стр. 15 - THE FARMER'S WOLDEST DAETER. No, no ! I ben't a-rinnen down The pirty maidens o' the town, Nar wishen 6'm noo harm ; But she that I wud marry vust, To shiare my good luck ar my crust, 'S a-bred up at a farm. In town, a maid da zee muore life, An' I dont under-riate her ; But ten to oone the sprackest wife 'S a farmer's woldest daeter.
Стр. 30 - Renaissance is a quest of the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome; the artificial nymphs and shepherds of the 18th c. voiced the nostalgia for an earlier simplicity and joy; an Arcadian parade is staged in Goethe's Faust (II 3). Rousseau's desire to have man once more "walk on all fours," Nietzsche's blonde beast, are phases of an idealization of the barbarian, the noble...
Стр. 106 - The respondents had not threatened to exercise their right to seize the furniture, and, so far as the evidence goes, they had neither the intention nor the wish to do so. Miss Ross, on the other hand, was anxious to put an end to the whole transaction, for reasons which are abundantly clear on the face of the correspondence, and it...

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