“From the past they turn to the future. Ah! at the close of the last century, the future seemed a thing tangible,—it was woven up in all men's fears and hopes of the present. At the verge of that hundred… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Many a time when I sat in the balcony, or hanging garden, on which my window opened, I have watched her rising in the air on her radiant wings, and in a few moments groups of infants below, catching sight… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“No path between the stranger’s home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“The stranger drew the curtains round the bed, took up the light, and inspected the apartment. The walls of both rooms were hung with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“It was a something found that had long been sought for by a thousand restless yearnings and vague desires, less of the heart than… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“But there is one privilege the Gy-ei carefully retain, and the desire for which perhaps forms the secret motive of most lady asserters of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“The communities were in fierce competition with each other. They had their rich and their poor; they had orators and conquerors; they made war… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“The superstitious belief, common to miners, that gnomes or fiends dwell within the bowels of the earth, began to seize me. I shuddered at… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“But why should you wish to leave a state of society which you so politely allow to be more felicitous than your own?” “Oh,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“This, then, was the mystery that had so galled him,—this the cause of the quarrel with the Cardinal; this the secret not to be… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“(This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe to it… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism give place… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Its chief covering seemed to me to be composed of large wings folded over its breast and reaching to its knees; the rest of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“Observe yon tree in your neighbour's garden. Look how it grows up, crooked and distorted. Some wind scattered the germ from which it sprang,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
