Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

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Эдвард Джордж Бульвер-Литтон

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Европейская старинная литература

Год написания книги

2018

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a snake glided from the tiles, through the court; the hen crowed."

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The reader will remember that these remarks were written long before the last French Revolution, and when the dynasty of Louis Philippe was generally considered most secure.

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"Flourished without fruit, and was destroyed without regret."

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Has not all this proved prophetic?

21

"What shall I do, a bachelor?"

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"I bid you look into the lives of all men, as it were into a mirror."

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"My fortune is about to take a turn."

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"A former state of things returns."

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"The things begun are interrupted and suspended."

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"As when a snake glides into light, having fed on pernicious pastures."

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"The girl is the least part of himself."

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"Why, in vain, do you catch at fleeting shadows?
That which you seek is nowhere."

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See, for description of this scenery, and the fate of De Retz, the high-wrought and glowing romance by Mr. Ritchie called "The Magician."

30

See "Ernest Maltravers," book iv., p. 164.

31

"Ernest Maltravers," book iv., p. 181.

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"Our banker always seemed more struck by Alice's moral feelings than even by her physical beauty. Her love for her child, for instance, impressed him powerfully," etc. "His feelings altogether for Alice, the designs he entertained towards her, were of a very complicated nature, and it will be long, perhaps, before the reader can thoroughly comprehend them."—See "Ernest Maltravers," book iv., p. 178.

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See "Ernest Maltravers," book v., p. 221.

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See "Ernest Maltravers," book v., p. 228.

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"To each lot its appropriate place."

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One may be more sharp than one's neighbour, but one can't be sharper than all one's neighbours.—ROCHEFOUCAULD.

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