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" There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shine and all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth and King James, and the Essexes, Leicesters,... "
Held in Bondage: Or Granville de Vigne. A Tale of the Day - Page 238
by Ouida - 1873
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1850 - 548 pages
...abiding with the few, waiting for the fit and the many. Says a writer : "There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses...which all candles shine, and all eyes are turned ; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth, and King James, and the Essexes,...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 204 pages
...he left in Ms will only his second best bed to Ann Hathaway his wife. There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shim.', and all eyes are turned ; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...many. Says a writer : " There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age misohooses the object on which all candles shine, and all eyes are turned ; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth, and King James, and the Essexes,...
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Shakspere: His Times and Contemporaries

George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...life of Shakspere ? Trubp enough has Waldo Emerson remarked : — , " " There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses...which all candles shine, and all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth and King James, and the Essexes,...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 123

1861 - 520 pages
...honour, but follow Philip Sydney's counsel, look in their own hearts and write, and leave the seed of their brain as ploughmen the corn in the furrows —...which all candles shine, and all eyes are turned,' registering every trifle touching Elizabeth, and Leicester, and Essex, and passing over, without a...
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'Held in bondage'; or, Granville de Vigne, by Ouida, Volume 2

Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1863 - 350 pages
...to see only the dark and barren earth, and the golden harvest only rise to wave over their tomb ?' in life, and one of the saddest of them is, as Emerson...either to court the world or care for it! A propos of celebres, Alma, you, vowed as you are to historic associations, should never be dull here, with all...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...abiding with the few, waiting for the fit and the many. Says a writer : " There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses...which all candles shine, and all eyes are turned ; the care with which it registers every trifle touchinir Queen Elizabeth, and King James, and the Essexes,...
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Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter, Volume 5

Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...whiff of smoke to that most private reality with which he has conversed. There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses...which all candles shine, and all eyes are turned ; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth, and King James, and the Essexcs,...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...left in his will only his second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife. There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses...which all candles shine, and all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth, and King James, and the Essexes,...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...left in his will only his second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife. There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses...which all candles shine, and all eyes are turned ; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth, and King James, and the Essexes,...
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