Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 1, July 1842

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 1, July 1842

It was a gorgeous bridal. The old hall of the palace was lit up with a thousand lights, and crowded with all the wealth, beauty and rank of Poland. The apartment blazed with the jewels of its occupants. Princes with their proud dames, high officers of state, nobles whose domains vied in extent with kingdoms, and lordly beauties beneath whose gaze all bent in adoration, had gathered at that magnificent festival to do honor to the bridal of the fair daughter of their host. And loveliest among the lovely was the bride. Tall and majestic in every movement, with a queenly brow, and a face such as might have been that of the mother of the gods, she moved through the splendid apartment the theme of every admiring tongue. Nor less remarkable was her husband. Warsaw beheld no noble tread her palaces more lordly in his bearing than the Count Restchifky. The fire of a hundred warrior ancestors burned in his eye. The fame of his high lineage, of his extended possessions, of his feats in arms, followed his footsteps wherever he went. In manly beauty the court of Poland had no rival to the count, in majestic loveliness the realm furnished no equal to his bride. And now, as they stood together in that proud old hall, surrounded by all that was noble and beautiful in the land, the peerless beauty of the countess and the princely bearing of her husband shone pre-eminent. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67962
Author: Various
Release Date: May 1, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: George R. Graham
Publication Date: 1842
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Editor: Graham, George R., 1813-1894 , Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857