BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (_LORD LYTTON_.) "To doubt and to be astonished is to recognize our ig...
BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (_LORD LYTTON_.) "To doubt and to be astonished is to recognize our ignorance.
CHAPTER I. In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five ...
CHAPTER I. In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree drinking their sherbet and listening, in the intervals of convers...
THE LADY OF LYONS or, LOVE AND PRIDE By Edward Bulwer Lytton To the author of "Ion."
THE LADY OF LYONS or, LOVE AND PRIDE By Edward Bulwer Lytton To the author of "Ion."
CHAPTER I. Graham Vane had heard nothing for months from M. Renard, when one morning he received...
CHAPTER I. Graham Vane had heard nothing for months from M. Renard, when one morning he received the letter I translate: "MONSIEUR,--I am happy to inform you that I have at last obtained one piec...
and David Widger HAROLD by Edward Bulwer Lytton Dedicatory Epistle TO THE RIGHT HON.
and David Widger HAROLD by Edward Bulwer Lytton Dedicatory Epistle TO THE RIGHT HON.
CHAPTER I. TWO days after the interview recorded in the last chapter of the previous Book, Trave...
CHAPTER I. TWO days after the interview recorded in the last chapter of the previous Book, Travers, chancing to call at Kenelm's lodgings, was told by his servant that Mr. Chillingly had left Lond...
CHAPTER I. It is the first week in the month of May, 1870.
CHAPTER I. It is the first week in the month of May, 1870.
CHAPTER I. "Please, sir, be this note for you?"
CHAPTER I. "Please, sir, be this note for you?"
VOLUME II. CHAPTER XIX. Alea sequa vorax species cer...
VOLUME II. CHAPTER XIX. Alea sequa vorax species certissima furti Non contenta bonis, animum quoque perfida mergit;-- Furca, f...
CHAPTER I. Harold, without waiting once more to see Edith, nor even taking leave of his father,...
CHAPTER I. Harold, without waiting once more to see Edith, nor even taking leave of his father, repaired to Dunwich [124], the capital of his earldom.
CHAPTER I. The stage-scene has dropped.
CHAPTER I. The stage-scene has dropped.
CHAPTER I. When I had reached the age of twelve, I had got to the head of the preparatory school...
CHAPTER I. When I had reached the age of twelve, I had got to the head of the preparatory school to which I had been sent.
CHAPTER I. KENELM did not return home till dusk, and just as he was sitting down to his solitary...
CHAPTER I. KENELM did not return home till dusk, and just as he was sitting down to his solitary meal there was a ring at the bell, and Mrs. Jones ushered in Mr. Thomas Bowles.
and David Widger CHAPTER LIII.
and David Widger CHAPTER LIII.
CHAPTER I. Four meals a day, nor those sparing, were not deemed too extravagant an interpretati...
CHAPTER I. Four meals a day, nor those sparing, were not deemed too extravagant an interpretation of the daily bread for which the Saxon prayed.
CHAPTER I. Some days after the tragical event with which the last chapter closed, the ships of ...
CHAPTER I. Some days after the tragical event with which the last chapter closed, the ships of the Saxons were assembled in the wide waters of Conway; and on the small fore-deck of the stateliest...
CHAPTER I. It was a beautiful summer afternoon when the coach set me down at my father's gate.
CHAPTER I. It was a beautiful summer afternoon when the coach set me down at my father's gate.
CHAPTER I. "L'adresse et l'artifice out passe dans mon coeur; Qu'ou a sous cet habit et d'e...
CHAPTER I. "L'adresse et l'artifice out passe dans mon coeur; Qu'ou a sous cet habit et d'esprit et de ruse."*--REGNARD.
CHAPTER I. "Deceit is the strong but subtle chain which runs through all the members of a s...
CHAPTER I. "Deceit is the strong but subtle chain which runs through all the members of a society, and links them together; trick or be tricked is the alternative; 'tis the way of the w...
CHAPTER I. And all went to the desire of Duke William the Norman.
CHAPTER I. And all went to the desire of Duke William the Norman.
CHAPTER I. * * * "There the action lies In its true nature * * * * * * * Wh...
CHAPTER I. * * * "There the action lies In its true nature * * * * * * * What then?
CHAPTER I. William, Count of the Normans, sate in a fair chamber of his palace of Rouen; and on...
CHAPTER I. William, Count of the Normans, sate in a fair chamber of his palace of Rouen; and on the large table before him were ample evidences of the various labours, as warrior, chief, thinker,...
CHAPTER I. There was great rejoicing in England.
CHAPTER I. There was great rejoicing in England.
CHAPTER I. It was the eve of the 5th of January--the eve of the day announced to King Edward as...
CHAPTER I. It was the eve of the 5th of January--the eve of the day announced to King Edward as that of his deliverance from earth; and whether or not the prediction had wrought its own fulfilmen...
CHAPTER I. "Notitiam primosque gradus vicinia fecit."*--OVID.
CHAPTER I. "Notitiam primosque gradus vicinia fecit."*--OVID.
CHAPTER I. IT is somewhat more than a year and a half since Kenelm Chillingly left England, and ...
CHAPTER I. IT is somewhat more than a year and a half since Kenelm Chillingly left England, and the scene now is in London, during that earlier and more sociable season which precedes the Easter h...
FALKLAND By Edward Bulwer-Lytton PREFATORY NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION.
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 sixpen...
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. 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...
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. 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 ...
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...
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 chi...
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 wes...
CHAPTER I. "My genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring.
and David Widger CHAPTER LXXXII.
and David Widger CHAPTER LXXXII.
CHAPTER I. While Harold sleeps, let us here pause to survey for the first time the greatness of...
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 b...
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 We...
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 cat...
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 ...
FALKLAND By Edward Bulwer-Lytton BOOK IV. FROM MRS. ST.JOHN TO ERASMUS FALKLAND, ESQ.
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 ...
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 ...
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 m...
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.
By Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) TO COUNT ALFRED D'ORSAY.
It was some weeks after the date of the events last recorded.
It was some weeks after the date of the events last recorded.
CHAPTER I. There would have been nothing in what had chanced to justify the suspicions that tor...
CHAPTER I. There would have been nothing in what had chanced to justify the suspicions that tortured me, but for my impressions as to the character of Vivian.
CHAPTER I. My uncle's conjecture as to the parentage of Francis Vivian seemed to me a positive ...
CHAPTER I. My uncle's conjecture as to the parentage of Francis Vivian seemed to me a positive discovery.
The young men entered the Strand, which, thanks to the profits of a toll-bar, was a passable road...
The 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-forti...
CHAPTER I. The next day, on the outside of the "Cambridge Telegraph," there was one passenger w...
CHAPTER I. The next day, on the outside of the "Cambridge Telegraph," there was one passenger who ought to have impressed his fellow-travellers with a very respectful idea of his lore in the dead...
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