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Devereux

Devereux

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1481861557
ISBN13: 9781481861557
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 28 2012
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Excerpt: ...or a liberal dispenser of invitations; and I think, if you refuse me now, you will hereafter regret it. My curiosity was rather excited by this threat; and, reflecting that my horse required a short rest, I subdued my impatience to return to town, and accepted the invitation. We came presently to a house of moderate size, and rather antique fashion. This, the old man informed me, was his present abode. A servant, almost as old as his master, came to the door, and, giving his arm to my host, led him, for he was rather lame and otherwise infirm, across a small hall into a long low apartment. I followed. A miniature of Oliver Cromwell, placed over the chimney-piece, forcibly arrested my attention. It is the only portrait of the Protector I ever saw, said I, which impresses on me the certainty of a likeness; that resolute gloomy brow, -that stubborn lip, -that heavy, yet not stolid expression, -all seem to warrant a resemblance to that singular and fortunate man, to whom folly appears to have been as great an instrument of success as wisdom, and who rose to the supreme power perhaps no less from a pitiable fanaticism than an admirable genius. So true is it that great men often soar to their height by qualities the least obvious to the spectator, and (to stoop to a low comparison) resemble that animal in which a common ligament supplies the place and possesses the property of wings. The flying squirrel. The old man smiled very slightly as I made this remark. If this be true, said he, with an impressive tone, though we may wonder less at the talents of the Protector, we must be more indulgent to his character, nor condemn him for insincerity when at heart he himself was deceived. It is in that light, said I, that I have always viewed his conduct. And though myself, by prejudice, a Cavalier and a Tory, I own that Cromwell (hypocrite as he is esteemed) appears to me as much to have exceeded his royal antagonist and victim in the virtue of...

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