Identifier: novelsromanceso28lytt (find matches)
Title: The novels and romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873
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Publisher: (New York J.F. Tayor)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to men. We are transported to a room in the house of CitizenDupleix, the menuisier, in the month of July, 1794;or, in the calendar of the Revolutionists, it was theThermidor of the Second Year of the Republic, Oneand Indivisible! Though the room was small, it was fur-nished and decorated with a minute and careful effort atelegance and refinement. It seemed, indeed, the desireof the owner to avoid at once what was mean and rude,and what was luxurious and voluptuous. It was a trim,orderly, precise grace that shaped the classic chairs,arranged the ample draperies, sank the frameless mirrorsinto the wall, placed bust and bronze on their pedestals,and filled up the niches here and there with well-bound 1 Le sang de Danton tetouffe ! (the blood of Danton chokesthee !) said Gamier de IAube, when, on the fatal 9th of Thermi-dor, Robespierre gasped feebly forth, Pour la demiere fois,President des Assassins, je te demande la parole. (For the lasttime, President of Assassins, I demand to speak.)
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ZANONI. 409 books, filed regularly in their appointed ranks. Anobserver would have said, This man wishes to imply-to you, — I am not rich; I am not ostentatious; I amnot luxurious; I am no indolent Sybarite, with couchesof down, and pictures that provoke the sense; I am nohaughty noble, with spacious halls, and galleries thatawe the echo. But so much the greater is my merit ifI disdain these excesses of the ease or the pride, since Ilove the elegant, and have a taste! Others may besimple and honest, from the very coarseness of theirhabits; if I, with so much refinement and delicacy, amsimple and honest, —reflect, and admire me! On the walls of this chamber hung many portraits,most of them represented but one face; on the formalpedestals were grouped many busts, most of themsculptured but one head. In that small chamber Ego-tism sat supreme, and made the Arts its looking-glasses.Erect in a chair, before a large table spread with letters,sat the original of bust and canvas, the owne

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