This letter fell like a cobble-stone on a tulip. A poet, secretary of claims, getting a stipend in ...
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and had learned a good deal of life during his four years in a minister's cabinet. Kindly, amiable,...
make; he is full of vanity, full of angles that will sharply wound a woman's proper pride, and kill...
me; I would not have you other than you are in this letter, the first--oh, may it not be the last! ...
your charity, what next? what do you expect? I have neither the genius nor the splendid position of...
the follies which are you able to make a poet commit. If so, you have done a bad deed. Your two let...
not be shared. For every hundred readers, eighty might weary of the battle. The respect due to the ...
his loss and also the terrible results on your mother's health and eyesight; prepare him for the sh...
"My son," she said, "you are so surrounded by true affection that I never thought how my thoughtles...
baffled hope that gleamed in Melmoth's eyes; he, too, knew the thirst that burned those red lips, a...
mingled with the excited eagerness of hope, and, beneath it all, a gnawing sense of loathing for al...
of a practitioner well known on the walls of Paris, and succumbed to the effects of an overdose of ...
Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To a Pol...
dwelling more in keeping with the splendor of his own abode, and he reconstructed it on the model o...
importance than mere social laws; and his present conduct proceeded from one of those compacts whic...