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The Last of the Barons — Volume 06The Last of the Barons — Volume 06We must pass over some months. Warwick and his family had returned to London, and the meeting between Edward and the earl had been cordial and affectionate. Warwick was reinstated in the offices which gave him apparently...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 04The Last of the Barons — Volume 04The day after the events recorded in the last section of this narrative, and about the hour of noon, Robert Hilyard (still in the reverend disguise in which he had accosted Hastings) bent his way through the...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 05The Last of the Barons — Volume 05Autumn had succeeded to summer, winter to autumn, and the spring of 1468 was green in England, when a gallant cavalcade was seen slowly winding the ascent of a long and gradual hill, towards the decline of...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 03The Last of the Barons — Volume 03While such the entrance of Marmaduke Nevile into a court, that if far less intellectual and refined than those of later days, was yet more calculated to dazzle the fancy, to sharpen the wit, and to charm...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 02The Last of the Barons — Volume 02The young men entered the Strand, which, thanks to the profits of a toll-bar, was a passable road for equestrians, studded towards the river, as we have before observed, with stately and half-fortified mansions; while on the...
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The Last of the Barons — Volume 01The Last of the Barons — Volume 01I dedicate to you, my indulgent Critic and long-tried Friend, the work which owes its origin to your suggestion. Long since, you urged me to attempt a fiction which might borrow its characters from our own Records,...
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Devereux — Volume 05Devereux — Volume 05MYSTERIOUS impulse at the heart, which never suffers us to be at rest, which urges us onward as by an unseen yet irresistible lawhuman planets in a petty orbit, hurried forever and forever, till our course is run and our light...
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Devereux — CompleteDevereux — Complete MY life has been one of frequent adventure and constant excitement. It has been passed, to this present day, in a stirring age, and not without acquaintance of the most eminent and active spirits of the time. Men of all grades...
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Devereux — Volume 04Devereux — Volume 04MONTHS passed away before my senses returned to me. I rose from the bed of suffering and of madness calm, collected, immovable,altered, but tranquil. All the vigilance of justice had been employed to discover the murderers, but in vain. The packet...
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Devereux — Volume 06Devereux — Volume 06I ARRIVED at St. Petersburg, and found the Czarina, whose conjugal perfidy was more than suspected, tolerably resigned to the extinction of that dazzling life whose incalculable and god-like utility it is reserved for posterity to appreciate! I have observed, by...
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Devereux — Volume 03Devereux — Volume 03SPINOZA is said to have loved, above all other amusements, to put flies into a spider's web; and the struggles of the imprisoned insects were wont to bear, in the eyes of this grave philosopher, so facetious and hilarious an appearance,...
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Devereux — Volume 02Devereux — Volume 02IT had, when I first went to town, just become the fashion for young men of fortune to keep house, and to give their bachelor establishments the importance hitherto reserved for the household of a Benedict. Let the reader figure to...
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Pelham — Volume 08Pelham — Volume 08 Say. Ay, but I hope your Highness shall have his. 2nd Part of Henry IV. Punctual to his appointment, the next morning came Mr. Job Jonson. I had been on the rack of expectation for the last three hours previous...
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Devereux — Volume 01Devereux — Volume 01IN this edition of a work composed in early youth, I have not attempted to remove those faults of construction which may be sufficiently apparent in the plot, but which could not indeed be thoroughly rectified without re-writing the whole work....
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Pelham — Volume 06Pelham — Volume 06The whole country was in confusion at the news of the murder. All the myrmidons of justice were employed in the most active research for the murderers. Some few persons were taken up on suspicion, but were as instantly discharged. Thornton...
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Pelham — CompletePelham — Complete Ou peut-on etre mieux quau sein de sa famille?French Song. [Where can one be better than in the bosom of ones family?] I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother...
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Pelham — Volume 04Pelham — Volume 04How well I can remember the feelings with which I entered London, and took possession of the apartments prepared for me at Mivart's. A year had made a vast alteration in my mind; I had ceased to regard pleasure for its...
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Pelham — Volume 07Pelham — Volume 07I rose at my usual early hour; sleep had tended to calm, and, I hope, also, to better my feelings. I had now leisure to reflect, that I had not embraced my party from any private or interested motive; it was...
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Pelham — Volume 02Pelham — Volume 02I dined the next day at the Freres Provencaux; an excellent restaurateur's, by-the-by, where one gets irreproachable gibier, and meets no English. After dinner, I strolled into the various gambling houses, with which the Palais Royal abounds. In one of these,...
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Pelham — Volume 05Pelham — Volume 05My pamphlet took prodigiously. The authorship was attributed to the most talented member of the Opposition; and though there were many errors in style, and (I now think) many sophisms in the reasoning, yet it carried the end proposed by all...
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