The new Timon, a romance [in verse, by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton.].

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Halaman 35 - Nor gout, nor toil, his freshness can destroy, And Time still leaves all Eton in the boy ; — First in the class, and keenest in the ring, He saps like Gladstone, and he fights like Spring...
Halaman 38 - Dim to all else, but to ourselves the sun ; And still, to each, some poor, obscurest life, Breathes all the bliss, or kindles all the strife. Wake up the countless dead ! — ask every ghost Whose influence tortured or consoled the most: How each pale spectre of the host would turn From the fresh laurel and the glorious urn, To point, where rots beneath a nameless stone, Some heart in which had ebb'd and flow'd its own ! What marvel then that sad Calantha's eye Roved listless o'er the nobler passers-by...
Halaman 27 - It was not mirth, for mirth she was too still, It was not wit, wit leaves the heart more chill; But that continuous sweetness, which with ease Pleases all round it, from the wish to please...
Halaman 175 - Thou ask'st why Christ, so lenient to the deed, So sternly claims the faith which founds the creed ; Because, reposed in faith the soul has calm ; The hope a haven and the wound a balm ; Because the light, dim seen in Reason's dream, On all alike, through faith alone, could stream. God...
Halaman 35 - One after one, the Lords of Time advance; Here Stanley meets — how Stanley scorns ! — the glance. The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, the Rupert of Debate ; Nor gout nor toil his freshness can destroy, And time still leaves all Eton in the boy.
Halaman 4 - And low the form, tho' lightly shaped the limb ; Yet life glowed vigorous in that deep set eye, With a calm force that dared you to defy ; And the small foot was planted on the stone Firm as a gnome's upon his mountain throne ; Simple his garb, yet what the wealthy wear, And conscious power gave lordship to his air. Lone in the Babel thus the maid and man ; Long he gazed silent, and at last began : — " Poor homeless outcast — dost thou see me stand Close by thy side — yet beg not? Stretch thy...
Halaman 36 - Next cool, and all unconscious of reproach, Comes the calm "Johnny who upset the coach."* How formed to lead, if not too proud to please, — His fame would fire you, but his manners freeze. Like or dislike, he does not care a jot; He wants your vote, but your affection not; Yet human hearts need sun, as well as oats, — So cold a climate plays the deuce with votes.
Halaman 4 - Tho' worn the cheek, with hunger or with care, Yet still the soft fresh child-like bloom was there — And each might touch you with an equal gloom, The youth, the care, the hunger, and the bloom; — As if, when round the cradle of the child With lavish gifts the gentler fairies smiled, One vengeful sprite, forgotten as the guest, Had breathed a spell to disenchant the rest, And prove how slight each favour, else divine, If wroth the Urganda of the Golden Mine!
Halaman 140 - Though his gay conscience many a heavier crime Than this had borne, and drifted off to Time; Though this but sport with a fond heart which Fate Had given to master, but denied to mate, Yet seem'd it as in that least sin arose The shapes of all the opening deeps disclose ; The general phantom of a life whose waste Ravaged each bloom by which its path was traced, Sporting at will, and moulding sport to art, With that sad holiness — the Human Heart!

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