
- •The Last Man Of the 21st crntury
- •Into public notice, and his small paternal property was soon dissipated in
- •In the brilliant circle to be on the wane. The king married; and the
- •Imprudence and follies. It is true that his presence dissipated these
- •Its false delights and clinging miseries; and, with poverty for his sole
- •I, the elder of the two, was five years old when my mother died. A
- •Views, and to entertain republican principles. However this might be, the
- •I turned my gaze to my own mean dress.--Whence sprung this difference?
- •Virtues; his generosity to us is manifest in our plenty, his bravery in the
- •It was not his rank--after all that I have said, surely it will not be
- •I spent the day with him. At first he did not recur to the past, or indeed
- •Valued friend, in his name to bestow every succour, and to assure him that,
- •Vagabond shepherd of the hills, a poacher, an unlettered savage, still his
- •Is too often the case, lead to a passion for command. She endeavoured to
- •In his sentiment; it was devotion and faith. His life was swallowed up in
- •It her earnest request that the tale of their loves should not be revealed
- •Independence in this situation. How refuse the offers of this generous
- •Imaginary; some repulse, where he least expected it; some disappointment,
- •Intervened to check it. I detailed the incidents of my sojourn abroad, and
- •Illness. That illness, from its peculiarity, makes it painful to me beyond
- •I became intimate with him, and each day afforded me occasion to admire
- •Indifference or contempt to her, better, far better avoid her, nor expose
- •If you refuse to aid me, I am lost indeed!" She cast up her eyes, while
- •Imaged by my still words--"Never! I can never consent that Lady Idris
- •I gasped for breath--
- •Inherited from his father, who had been a manufacturer. He had witnessed,
- •Vulgar ear; and many--the event would prove whether it was a majority--
- •Voice, and with a manner which, though not graceful, was impressive. I
- •Voice assumed the tone of passion. There was one man, he continued, who
- •I paused, even awed by the agitation he evinced; "Yes," he said at length,
- •Voice, "The time grows on us, Verney, I must away. Let me not forget my
- •Its pain. I was punctual to the appointed hour on the following day, and
- •I smiled incredulously, and replied: "I am of Ryland's way of thinking, and
- •Injury I have done her; persuade her to be mine."
- •I rambled away from them. If the rapture of assured sympathy was theirs, I
- •I alighted at Perth; and, though much fatigued by a constant exposure to
- •It; when Adrian called me, and clasping my hand, bade me not leave him. His
- •Verdant carpet spread at our feet, and the azure canopy above; the fields
- •Is pleasure; and I thank God that I live!
- •Intercourse, love, in the guise of enthusiastic friendship, infused more
- •I love Verney; prove to me that he is worthless; and I will never see him
- •I was even accused of encreasing and confirming the mad and base apostacy
- •Violence, and now by unaccustomed fears, she lay unable to sleep, starting
- •It is long past eleven; they will be here at five; take merely the clothes
- •I comforted her as well as I might. Joy and exultation, were mine, to
- •Injured parent, whose only expectation of tranquillity must be derived from
- •Introduced to our happy circle. Adrian, Idris and I, were established in
- •Inclination to love, being born as much to love, as to feel, to reason, to
- •If Adrian consent, they are unanswerable. One only condition I would make,
- •In the evening Adrian visited us.--"Do you cabal also against me," said
- •It was by virtue of the constitution dissolved, its power extinct.
- •Violence he did himself; but we, intent on our plans, observed only his
- •Interim to conceal this frightful determination, was a task that almost
- •It was to be performed alone, was the most agonizing that could be devised.
- •Victory. It seemed as if, far from any dread of defeat even if Mr. Ryland
- •Imagined, that fate demanded this sacrifice from her, as a mark she was
- •Is impossible for you to see the real designer; your instructions must pass
- •In the midst of such drear and heart sickening poverty, there was an air of
- •Into the lacerated mind of the unfortunate. As Evadne regained her
- •Into any project for her benefit, nor himself offer relief. "Do not degrade
- •In the midst of such wretchedness as must soon have destroyed her, one
- •It was in the newspaper that she saw the advertisement for the design for a
- •Idea of interest, or the intervention of the complicated feelings attendant
- •Indissoluble tie between them. Sometimes she felt proud that he had
- •If a feeling of dissatisfaction ever crossed her, it arose from the idea
- •Incarnation of the thing itself exhibited by her.
- •It is not. You would deceive me, but I will not be deceived. I have lost
- •Innocence will bestow, will be excellent balm;--me you will never see
- •Intimacy and happiness; she pictured their future life, she mentioned their
- •In which love had cradled them, the clinging weight of destiny bent him
- •It was as I said, the nineteenth of October; the autumn was far advanced
- •Insensibility, a sharer in your calm!"
- •Internally count the moments which must elapse before she could be alone.
- •Idris, who was at the harp, turned to that passionate and sorrowful air in
- •Vain endeavour, if indeed that way your endeavours tend. Forgiveness!
- •In the shape of an adversary to be overcome, than of a victor to whom she
- •In these events; and he could not persuade himself to undertake to direct
- •It led onward, the train of calamities which now befell her.
- •Ideas, we differed in their application. Resentment added also a sting to
- •I turned angrily away: "Verney," said Adrian, "you are very cynical: sit
- •It was pretty enough to play a sovereign's part; and, as in the recesses of
- •I must. Do not endeavour to deprive me of my companion, the out-cast's
- •Veil is which she has spread over the reality--do not endeavour to rend
- •Into the bright noon-enlightened highway of mankind, making me, citizen of
- •It was still in her power to enjoy, watched with anxiety the result of
- •Interest in their success. Greece prepared for a vigorous resistance; it
- •In the side, and I fell senseless.
- •It, and she listened with avidity to the account of his achievements. Clara
- •Immoveable, we consulted as to the best means of furthering her purpose.
- •Impulse of policy and money to redeem him from their hands.
- •Inanimate dust mingles with yours, and thus have a companion in decay." In
- •In the sun, and standing in bright relief against the dark ridge of lofty
- •Induces, enjoying in secure tranquillity his liberty and re-union with her
- •Victory, the next step would be the siege of Constantinople by the Greeks.
- •I no longer saw the fresh glow of youth on his matured countenance, if care
- •Information of our approach, and the country people were quickly in motion
- •Irregularity, save such undulations as resembled the waves of the sea. The
- •It hung pendulous in the orange hues of sunset. I turned to the
- •It flew swiftly towards me, sinking to the ground again as it drew near.
- •Voice she murmured:--"This is the end of love!--Yet not the end!"--
- •I bore her from the near neighbourhood of the dead; wrapt in cloaks, I
- •I could hardly find an opportunity to bestow the last offices on Evadne.
- •I am but half a soldier; I love the renown, but not the trade of war.
- •I related my meeting with her; the story of her death was told and re-told.
- •Inquired concerning, and endeavoured to remove the cause of his
- •In the besieged city.
- •In this I see the hand of fate--your presence will soon be necessary; you
- •In a transport of sorrow. Soon we returned to shore, and I endeavoured to
- •Impatience the weight of the unrefreshing air. But in the city things wore
- •Important. The night before, the watch, on board one of the smaller vessels
- •I have heard a picture described, wherein all the inhabitants of earth were
- •Vehemence. "Perdita," he continued, impatiently, "I know what you would
- •I stand before its vanquished walls, and dare not call myself a conqueror.
- •I leave behind a trail of light so radiant, that my worst enemies cannot
- •Verney, my fixed determination not to quit this place, until in the light
- •In each eye, unrefreshed by sleep. I found Raymond and Perdita together. He
- •I fulfilled my commission; I saw Karazza. He was somewhat surprised; he
- •Into the sides of the stung animal, who bounded forward, and he, the
- •I was overcome by weariness; the solitude depressed my spirits. The sultry
- •Irrevocable words. Nay, she seemed to wish to distract my thoughts from the
- •Its inhabitants, while life becomes doubly 'the desart and the solitude.'
- •It is impossible to conjecture the strange enchainment of events which
- •Intents, words, and actions were worthy to be recorded in letters of gold;
- •In his essence, and sky and mountains, sea and valley, are imbued by the
- •Imagination. Even I am in love with this last home of Raymond's;
- •It was late in the day before Perdita awoke, and a longer time elapsed
- •Visitation of the plague in our well-governed metropolis, as to calculate
- •In the sunny clime of Persia, in the crowded cities of China, amidst the
- •Inundated the west of Europe; and our island had become the refuge of
- •Inhales death, even while in youth and health, their hopes are in the
- •In France and Italy. These tidings were at first whispered about town; but
- •Introduced for the infirm; but else it was nothing singular to see females
- •It may be imagined that things were in a bad state indeed, before this
- •I have lingered thus long on the extreme bank, the wasting shoal that
- •In the sunshine, added to the gaiety of the scene. On a platform erected
- •Infection in my languor. I had scarcely recovered, and with feigned
- •Visited, so the calamity might have lost its most venomous power before it
- •Invincible barriers to the progress of our foe. Perhaps in no part of the
- •I now sought Adrian, anxious to hear the result of his discussion with
- •I might heap high the scale with logic, courage, and resignation--but let
- •It was not until I arrived at Brentford, that I perceived much change in
- •I was struck by the improvement that appeared in the health of Adrian. He
- •Impossible! the die was cast--I would offer myself as candidate.
- •Vehemence; he ended with unassuming gentleness, making his appeal with the
- •I did proceed to Windsor, but not with the intention of remaining there. I
- •Impressed on every countenance. I passed by a group of these terrorists, in
- •Vessel--he shall be preserved, and his children and his children's
- •Visit to Bolter's Lock, which, connected with my continued absence, might
- •In the court-dress of death. Pestilence will usher you to his presence. Why
- •In the expression, wild with grief and dread. She hung over the patient in
- •I had returned from London possessed by the idea, with the intimate feeling
- •It. In Italy the rivers were unwatched by the diminished peasantry; and,
- •It was the sight of Little Marlow, and my conversations with Martha, that
- •I waited beside the bed of death till midnight, and through the obscurity
- •If not to guide, at least to set bounds to the license of the times. The
- •Into a room, whose half-opened door displayed a number of corpses, horrible
- •I could trust that he who built up the mountains, planted the forests, and
- •In, noiseless, terrorless at first, till each felt their life bound up in
- •Vanquished, but I would not yield.
- •Into her neighbourhood, barred her door, and closed her casement, refusing
- •Infected, she no longer dreaded the association of others; but, as swiftly
- •It was not the plague that visited our little boy so roughly; but she could
- •Is shaken by the wind, and on whose edge
- •I, not proudly as in days of joy, yet tenderly, and with glad consciousness
- •Infectious influences, a tempest arose wilder than the winds, a tempest
- •In forcing these of either sex to become their servants and purveyors;
- •Innumerous foe. Thus coming nearer and nearer each other, the howls and
- •Invaders, with a severe brow, he commanded them to lay down their arms: "Do
- •In hope and fear for the fate of this one man. Adrian tore off his military
- •Villages,--a part were sent back to their own island, while the season of
- •I had commenced my search late in the day, a November day, that closed in
- •Inutility that had attended all my exertions took from them their usual
- •It was my task each day to visit the various families assembled in our
- •Inhabitants; in a little time you see an ant struggling through the
- •I stood in the gap, resisting the enemy--the impalpable, invisible foe,
- •Intoxication with their simple drink. Joy strews the hard couch with roses,
- •In vagabond pursuit of dreadful safety.
- •Interminable, is but a small part of her. At the close of a day's march
- •View, I looked back on the castle. Its windows glistened in the moonshine,
- •I quitted what I loved, not what loved me. The castle walls, and long
- •It consisted of about fifty persons. Distinction and station were not the
- •In all direction, had been somewhat deserted in the midst, and much of what
- •It was a child singing a merry, lightsome air; there was no other sound. We
- •In the mean time, while we descanted on alien sorrows, and on a solitude
- •I had gone out with Adrian. She entreated them to seek me: she returned to
- •It? That was the last moment of my happiness; but I was happy. Idris must
- •Idris understood me: she bowed her head on my shoulder and wept. "Why," she
- •Is before us, we take hope only from the presence of each other. Idris,
- •It is, is a part of eternity, and the dearest part, since it is our own
- •I was changed; the tight-drawn cord that sounded so harshly was loosened,
- •Idris stirred and awoke; alas! she awoke to misery. She saw the signs of
- •Into a sleep. He started up, and beheld his sister senseless on the earth,
- •Insufficient for my reviving strength; methought I could emulate the speed
- •I was only half re-assured by these expressions; I could not believe that
- •It was some years after her marriage that we became acquainted with her.
- •In their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time?
- •Intreated the man to stay with her; in a week or two her mother would be
- •I think that she does not know the worst, but she soon must; and then she
- •I saw the heavy outline of a cottage traced on the dark horizon close to
- •I carried her into the cottage; I placed her on the bed. Lighting a fire, I
- •Veered from south-west to west, and then again to north-west. As Sampson
- •Indeed, I could have yielded to all the softness of my nature, and wept;
- •Its vaulted roof, and borne to me through the hollow passages. Had Clara
- •Visitant; her tall form slowly rose upwards from the vault, a living
- •Idris and her mother were unlike in person. The dark hair, deep-set black
- •In Datchet, and to have re-assured her with promises of aid and protection
- •Vessels in the harbour were flung on land like sea-weed, and there battered
- •In spite of its unmitigated clamour, its more cheerful appearance instilled
- •Its accustomed majesty towards its western home. When--we dared not trust
- •Intervals, as we rose on the broad back of the waves. I exerted myself with
- •In the great pool a swan's nest.
- •Ignorant only, and I think it would be no difficult task to prove to you,
- •Inquisitiveness, no restless desire to get on. If we had been assured that
- •Idris, and the dead lay around, mouldering in hushed repose. When I again
- •Implanted an high sense of duty in her young heart. Though serious she was
- •Illness of Idris, caused us to forget our hapless friend. This circumstance
- •I presented myself to her; for a moment natural feeling produced a
- •In a moment I was thrown on the earth, bound, blindfolded, and hurried away
- •Intervals the shadow of his skeleton-shape darkened my path. I had believed
- •Volumes. The air was dank, the dungeon-floor mildewed and icy cold; hunger
- •I spoke hurriedly, but with fervour: and while with gentle violence I drew
- •Idris in her antique tomb; nor could strength of body or energy of mind
- •Instruction this monument of the foregone race; but not that I should drag
- •Italy, or busy England. Yet the towns were frequent and lively, and the
- •In commotion; to reach Switzerland, to plunge into rivers of snow, and to
- •Induced by these conflicting fears and passions, detained Adrian. It
- •In bonds, vaunted his design, and madly claimed the crown of martyrdom,
- •It was a moment of suspense, that shook even the resolution of the
- •It was she) denounced to the host of deceived believers, the wickedness of
- •Icy atmosphere, they said, surrounded him; when he was heard, all animals
- •It had been well, if such vain terrors could have distracted our thoughts
- •Irrevocably to the opinion, that our utmost efforts would not preserve one
- •Votarist, visiting some holy shrine at midnight; if she beheld animated and
- •In the land, he remained unacquainted with the change, nor was aware that
- •Immeasurable Alps; the spire of the church they frequented still points
- •In those caves of ice beneath the glacier, which rive and split with the
- •It seems to me that it did; that a cloud seemed to pass from over us, that
- •Is not yet awake within them: we cannot guess what will happen then, when
- •Italy. At the uprising of morn, we sat at our repast, and cheated our
- •It was the custom of Adrian and myself to go out each day in our skiff to
- •Inner court were empty, so was the house, whose every room we visited.
- •Visaged power, while I write, while eyes read these pages.
- •Venice in our way to Rome. There was something to the English peculiarly
- •Its cupolas and towers, and shed its penetrating light upon the glassy
- •Invite us to quit the land strewn with ruins, and to seek refuge from
- •I sat at the prow, watching our course; when suddenly I heard the waters
- •Its fury? My efforts to prepare my companions were rendered nearly futile
- •I must have lain long deprived of life; for when first, with a sickening
- •I threw myself on the sands, and then the sighing wind, mimicking a human
- •I awoke in a painful agony--for I fancied that ocean, breaking its
- •I entered Ravenna, (the town nearest to the spot whereon I had been cast),
- •If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
- •In pursuance of this scheme, I entered a painter's shop, and procured
- •Incalculable pain.
- •I rose each day with the morning sun, and left my desolate inn. As my feet
- •I had toiled up a hill which led to Spoleto. Around was spread a plain,
- •Voice had gladdened my ears, or human countenance met my gaze. Twenty-five
- •I hailed the Tiber, for that was as it were an unalienable possession of
- •It became necessary therefore, that for a time I should domesticate myself
- •I was presented, meantime, with one other occupation, the one best fitted
I, not proudly as in days of joy, yet tenderly, and with glad consciousness
of the comfort I afforded, drew my trembling girl close to my heart, and
tried to ward every painful thought or rough circumstance from her
sensitive nature.
One other incident occurred at the end of this summer. The Countess of
Windsor, Ex-Queen of England, returned from Germany. She had at the
beginning of the season quitted the vacant city of Vienna; and, unable to
tame her haughty mind to anything like submission, she had delayed at
Hamburgh, and, when at last she came to London, many weeks elapsed before
she gave Adrian notice of her arrival. In spite of her coldness and long
absence, he welcomed her with sensibility, displaying such affection as
sought to heal the wounds of pride and sorrow, and was repulsed only by her
total apparent want of sympathy. Idris heard of her mother's return with
pleasure. Her own maternal feelings were so ardent, that she imagined her
parent must now, in this waste world, have lost pride and harshness, and
would receive with delight her filial attentions. The first check to her
duteous demonstrations was a formal intimation from the fallen majesty of
England, that I was in no manner to be intruded upon her. She consented,
she said, to forgive her daughter, and acknowledge her grandchildren;
larger concessions must not be expected.
To me this proceeding appeared (if so light a term may be permitted)
extremely whimsical. Now that the race of man had lost in fact all
distinction of rank, this pride was doubly fatuitous; now that we felt a
kindred, fraternal nature with all who bore the stamp of humanity, this
angry reminiscence of times for ever gone, was worse than foolish. Idris
was too much taken up by her own dreadful fears, to be angry, hardly
grieved; for she judged that insensibility must be the source of this
continued rancour. This was not altogether the fact: but predominant
self-will assumed the arms and masque of callous feeling; and the haughty
lady disdained to exhibit any token of the struggle she endured; while the
slave of pride, she fancied that she sacrificed her happiness to immutable
principle.
False was all this--false all but the affections of our nature, and the
links of sympathy with pleasure or pain. There was but one good and one
evil in the world--life and death. The pomp of rank, the assumption of
power, the possessions of wealth vanished like morning mist. One living
beggar had become of more worth than a national peerage of dead lords--
alas the day!--than of dead heroes, patriots, or men of genius. There was
much of degradation in this: for even vice and virtue had lost their
attributes--life--life--the continuation of our animal mechanism--
was the Alpha and Omega of the desires, the prayers, the prostrate ambition
of human race.
[1] Calderon de la Barca.
[2] Wordsworth.
[3] Keats.
[4] Andrew Marvell.
[5] The Cenci
[6] The Brides' Tragedy, by T. L. Beddoes, Esq.
CHAPTER IX.
HALF England was desolate, when October came, and the equinoctial winds
swept over the earth, chilling the ardours of the unhealthy season. The
summer, which was uncommonly hot, had been protracted into the beginning of
this month, when on the eighteenth a sudden change was brought about from
summer temperature to winter frost. Pestilence then made a pause in her
death-dealing career. Gasping, not daring to name our hopes, yet full even
to the brim with intense expectation, we stood, as a ship-wrecked sailor
stands on a barren rock islanded by the ocean, watching a distant vessel,
fancying that now it nears, and then again that it is bearing from sight.
This promise of a renewed lease of life turned rugged natures to melting
tenderness, and by contrast filled the soft with harsh and unnatural
sentiments. When it seemed destined that all were to die, we were reckless
of the how and when--now that the virulence of the disease was mitigated,
and it appeared willing to spare some, each was eager to be among the
elect, and clung to life with dastard tenacity. Instances of desertion
became more frequent; and even murders, which made the hearer sick with
horror, where the fear of contagion had armed those nearest in blood
against each other. But these smaller and separate tragedies were about to
yield to a mightier interest--and, while we were promised calm from