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and David Widger, DEVEREUX BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (Lord Lytton) ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

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CHAPTER I. Thucydides chosen by the Aristocratic Party to oppose Pericles.--His Policy.--Munificence of Pericles.--Sacred War.--Battle of Coronea.-- Revolt of Euboea and Megara.--Invasion and Retr...

CHAPTER I. The Conspiracy of Cylon.--Loss of Salamis.--First Appearance of Solon.--Success against the Megarians in the Struggle for Salamis.-- Cirrhaean War.--Epimenides.--Political State of Athe...

CHAPTER I. Saint Chrysostom, in his work on "The Priesthood," defends deceit, if for a good purpose, by many Scriptural examples; ends his first book by asserting that it is often necessary, and ...

CHAPTER I. I was always an early riser.

FALKLAND By Edward Bulwer-Lytton PREFATORY NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

CHAPTER I. In setting off the next morning, the Boots, whose heart I had won by an extra sixpence for calling me betimes, good-naturedly informed me that I might save a mile of the journey, and h...

CHAPTER I. And my father pushed aside his books.

CHAPTER I. The sun had just cast his last beams over the breadth of water into which Conway, or rather Cyn-wy, "the great river," emerges its winding waves.

CHAPTER I. The Hegira is completed,--we have all taken roost in the old Tower.

CHAPTER I. There is a beautiful and singular passage in Dante (which has not perhaps attracted the attention it deserves), wherein the stern Florentine defends Fortune from the popular accusation...

CHAPTER I. "Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears--soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony."

CHAPTER I. Saith Dr. Luther, "When I saw Dr. Gode begin to tell his puddings hanging in the chimney, I told him he would not live long!"

CHAPTER I. "My genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring.

and David Widger CHAPTER LXXXII.

CHAPTER I. While Harold sleeps, let us here pause to survey for the first time the greatness of that House to which Sweyn's exile had left him the heir.

MYSTERIOUS impulse at the heart, which never suffers us to be at rest, which urges us onward as by an unseen yet irresistible law--human planets in a petty orbit, hurried forever and forever, till ...

Edward and his army reached St. Alban's. Great commotion, great joy, were in the Sanctuary of Westminster!

CHAPTER I. The good Bishop Alred, now raised to the See of York, had been summoned from his cathedral seat by Edward, who had indeed undergone a severe illness, during the absence of Harold; and ...

and David Widger ZICCI A Tale By Edward Bulwer-Lytton BOOK ...

By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) CHAPTER XLII.

CHAPTER I. Envy will be a science when it learns the use of the microscope.

and David Widger CHAPTER XXI.

AUF.--"Whence comest thou--what wouldst thou?"

SPINOZA 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...

IT 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 ...

JAM veniet virgo, jam dicetur Hymenaeus, Hymen, O Hymenae!

CHAPTER I The Character and Popularity of Miltiades.--Naval expedition.

CHAPTER I. "Sir--sir, it is a boy!"

FALKLAND By Edward Bulwer-Lytton BOOK IV. FROM MRS. ST.JOHN TO ERASMUS FALKLAND, ESQ.

CHAPTER I. "Il y eut certainement quelque chose de singulier dans mes sentimens pour cette charmante femme."*--ROUSSEAU.

CHAPTER I. There entered, in the front drawing-room of my father's house in Russell Street, an Elf!

CHAPTER I. On the 8th of May the vote of the plebiscite was recorded,--between seven and eight millions of Frenchmen in support of the Imperial programme--in plain words, of the Emperor himself--a...

By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) TO COUNT ALFRED D'ORSAY.

It was some weeks after the date of the events last recorded.

Every day, at the hour in which Constance was visible, Godolphin had loaded the keeper, and had returned to attend upon her movements.

By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) CHAPTER XXII.

By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) CHAPTER XXXII.

and David Widger CHAPTER LXVIII.

and David Widger CHAPTER XXXV.

and David Widger CHAPTER XXXVII.

While 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...

CHAPTER I. Etchings of Hyde Park in the month of June, which, if this history escapes those villains the trunk-makers, may be of inestimable value to unborn antiquarians.--Character...

of character; and in such strokes, if they be by a great artist, force and freedom of style must still be apparent, even when they are left rough and unfinished.

situation.

Scene, the hall in UNCLE ROLAND'S tower; time, niyht; season, winter.

We left Jasper Losely resting for the night at the small town near Fawley.

CHAPTER I. In which the history opens with a description of the social manners, habits, and amusements of the English People, as exhibited in an immemorial National Festivity.--Char...

CHAPTER I. The last book closed with the success of the Parisian sortie on the 30th of November, to be followed by the terrible engagements no less honourable to French valour, on the 2nd of Decem...