 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 226 pages
...SPENSER. " There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend." Ibid, on Superstition. NINE times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs...that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover, and find... | |
 | Lord Edward Lytton Bulwer - 1837 - 376 pages
...SPENSEK. " There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend." Ihid., on Superstition. NINE times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs...that we pass the narrow gulf from Youth to Manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover, and we find... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 224 pages
...SFENSIB. " There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend." Ibid, on Superstition. NINE times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs...that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover, and find... | |
 | 1838 - 588 pages
...hurrying him to unripe enjoyments, and forbidden scenes. Bulwer says finely, in Ernest Maltravers : ' Nine times out of ten, it is over the bridge of sighs...that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an illplaced or disappointed affection. We recover, and find ourselves... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 pages
...SPENSER. " There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend." — Ibid. on Superstition. NINE times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs...that we pass the narrow gulf from Youth to Manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover, and we find... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1864 - 522 pages
...23ejug auf eine (Summe, auS fteídjer ein numerifdj beftinra» ter Sbeit in Setradjt gejogen toirb. Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs...that we pass the narrow gulf from Youth to Manhood (BuLW. , Maltrav. 1, 14.). Like other representatives, nine times out of ten he is a silent member... | |
 | Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster - 1872 - 308 pages
...was won, for which he fancied that he had only to work and wait. CHAPTER II. OF FAMILY MATTERS. Nino times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood.—LORD LYTTON. DEATH, which solves all riddles for the man whom it overtakes, is very often... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1874 - 512 pages
...sum, a part of which, numerically determined, is contemplated borders on the partitive meaning of of. Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs...that we pass the narrow gulf from Youth to Manhood (Bi'Lw., Maltrav. 1, 14.). Like other representatives, nine times out of ten he is a silent member... | |
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We recover, and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows... 
