Book Ii. Chapter X : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER X. O sollecito dubbio e fredda tema Che pensando l'accresci. Tasso, Canzone vi. (O anxious doubt and chilling fear that grows by thinking.) She was seated outside her door,--the young actress! The sea before her in that heavenly bay seemed...
Book I. Chapter Iii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER III. Fra si contrarie tempre in ghiaccio e in foco, In riso e in pianto, e fra paura e speme L'ingannatrice Donna-- "Gerusal. Lib.," cant. iv. xciv. (Between such contrarious mixtures of ice and fire, laughter and tears,--fear and hope...
Untitled : * Zanoni introduced the concept of the wandering, eternal adepts into popular culture, with this tale of tragic love. Bulwer Lytton also wrote the fantasy Vril, The Power of the Coming Race, a prototype for fictions of lost civilizations to come. Zanoni had a huge influence on Theosophists...
Book Vii. Chapter V : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER V. Van seco pur anco Sdegno ed Amor, quasi due Veltri al fianco. "Ger. Lib." cant. xx. cxvii. (There went with him still Disdain and Love, like two greyhounds side by side.) Glyndon did not perceive, as he hurried from the house, two forms...
Book Iv. Chapter Vii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VII. Cernis, custodia qualis Vestibulo sedeat? facies quae limina servet? "Aeneid," lib. vi. 574. (See you what porter sits within the vestibule?--what face watches at the threshold?) And it is profound night. All is at rest within the old...
Book Iii. Chapter Xviii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XVIII. Merc: Tell me, therefore, what thou seekest after, and what thou wilt have. What dost thou desire to make? Alch: The Philosopher's Stone. Sandivogius. It wanted several minutes of midnight, and Glyndon repaired to the appointed spot...
Book Iii. Chapter Xv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XV. Oime! come poss' io Altri trovar, se me trovar non posso. "Amint.," At. i. Sc. ii. (Alas! how can I find another when I cannot find myself?) The sleep of Glyndon, the night after his last interview with Zanoni, was unusually profound;...
Book Vii. Chapter Ix : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IX. Think not my magic wonders wrought by aid Of Stygian angels summoned up from hell; Scorned and accursed be those who have essayed Her gloomy Dives and Afrites to compel. But by perception of the secret powers Of mineral springs in Nature's...
Book Vi. Chapter Vi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VI. Quel est l'egarement ou ton ame se livre? La Harpe, "Le Comte de Warwick," Act 4, sc. 4. (To what delusion does thy soul abandon itself?) Alas, Zanoni! the aspirer, the dark, bright one!--didst thou think that the bond between the surviv...
Book Ii. Chapter Iii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER III. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And, darkly bright, are bright in dark directed. Shakespeare. Zanoni followed the young Neapolit...
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Book Iv. Chapter Iii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER III. Man is the eye of things.--Euryph, "de Vit. Hum." ...There is, therefore, a certain ecstatical or transporting power, which, if at any time it shall be excited or stirred up by an ardent desire and most strong imagination, is able...
Book Iv. Chapter Vi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VI. Whilest Calidore does follow that faire mayd, Unmindful of his vow and high beheast Which by the Faerie Queene was on him layd. --Spenser, "Faerie Queene," cant. x. s. 1. It was that grey, indistinct, struggling interval between the night...
Book Vi. Chapter I : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], BOOK VI.--SUPERSTITION DESERTING FAITH. Why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair.--Shakespeare CHAPTER I. Therefore the Genii were painted with a platter full of garlands and flowers in one hand, and a whip in the other...
Book Iii. Chapter Vi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VI. Tu vegga o per violenzia o per inganno Patire o disonore o mortal danno. "Orlando Furioso," Cant. xlii. i. (Thou art about, either through violence or artifice, to suffer either dishonour or mortal loss.) It was a small cabinet; the walls...
Book I. Chapter Vii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VII. Qui donc t'a donne la mission s'annoncer au peuple que la divinite n'existe pas? Quel avantage trouves-tu a persuader a l'homme qu'une force aveugle preside a ses destinees et frappe au hasard le crime et la vertu?--Robespierre, "Discours,"...
Book Vii. Chapter Ii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER II. La haine, dans ces lieux, n'a qu'un glaive assassin. Elle marche dans l'ombre. La Harpe, "Jeanne de Naples," Act iv. sc. 1. (Hate, in these regions, has but the sword of the assassin. She moves in the shade.) While such the designs and fears...
Book Ii. Chapter V : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER V. I and my fellows Are ministers of Fate. --"The Tempest." The next day Glyndon bent his steps towards Zanoni's palace. The young man's imagination, naturally inflammable, was singularly excited by the little he had seen and heard of this...
Book Iii. Chapter I : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], BOOK III.--THEURGIA. --i cavalier sen vanno dove il pino fatal gli attende in porto. Gerus. Lib., cant. xv (Argomento.) The knights came where the fatal bark Awaited them in the port. CHAPTER I. But that which especially distinguishes the brotherhood is...
Book I. Chapter Vi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VI. Precepteurs ignorans de ce faible univers.--Voltaire. (Ignorant teachers of this weak world.) Nous etions a table chez un de nos confreres a l'Academie, Grand Seigneur et homme d'esprit.--La Harpe. (We supped with one of our confreres...
Book I. Chapter I : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], ZANONI. BOOK I.--THE MUSICIAN. Due Fontane Chi di diverso effeto hanno liquore! "Ariosto, Orland. Fur." Canto 1.7. (Two Founts That hold a draught of different effects.) CHAPTER I. Vergina era D' alta belta, ma sua belta non cura: .... Di natura, d'...
Book Vii. Chapter X : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER X. Quid mirare meas tot in uno corpore formas? Propert. (Why wonder that I have so many forms in a single body?) Zanoni to Mejnour. ..... "She is in one of their prisons,--their inexorable prisons. It is Robespierre's order,--I have tracked...
Book V. Chapter I : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], BOOK V.--THE EFFECTS OF THE ELIXIR. CHAPTER I. Frommet's den Schleier aufzuheben, Wo das nahe Schreckness droht? Nur das Irrthum ist das Leben Und das Wissen ist der Tod, --Schiller, Kassandro. Delusion is the life we live And knowledge death; oh...
Book Iii. Chapter Xiv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XIV. Ma lasciamo, per Dio, Signore, ormai Di parlar d' ira, e di cantar di morte. "Orlando Furioso," Canto xvii. xvii. (But leave me, I solemnly conjure thee, signor, to speak of wrath, and to sing of death.) The young actress was led...
Book V. Chapter Iv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IV. Ich fuhle Dich mir nahe; Die Einsamkeit belebt; Wie uber seinen Welten Der Unsichtbare schwebt. Uhland. (I feel thee near to me, The loneliness takes life,--As over its world The Invisible hovers.) From this state of restlessness...
Book Iv. Chapter V : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER V. Great travell hath the gentle Calidore And toyle endured... There on a day,--He chaunst to spy a sort of shepheard groomes, Playing on pipes and caroling apace. ...He, there besyde Saw a faire damzell. --Spenser, "Faerie Queene," cant. ix...
Book Vii. Chapter Vi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VI. In poppa quella Che guidar gli dovea, fatal Donsella. "Ger. Lib." cant. xv. 3. (By the prow was the fatal lady ordained to be the guide.) The Italian did not overrate that craft of simulation proverbial with her country and her sex. Not...
Book Iii. Chapter Xvii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XVII. Alch: Thou always speakest riddles. Tell me if thou art that fountain of which Bernard Lord Trevizan writ? Merc: I am not that fountain, but I am the water. The fountain compasseth me about. Sandivogius, "New Light of Alchymy." The Prince...
Book Iv. Chapter Ii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER II. And Abaris, so far from esteeming Pythagoras, who taught these things, a necromancer or wizard, rather revered and admired him as something divine.--Iamblich., "Vit. Pythag." The attendants whom Mejnour had engaged for his strange abode were...
Book Iii. Chapter Ii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER II. Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shakespeare. Who so happy as Viola now! A dark load was lifted from her heart: her step seemed to tread on air; she would have sung for very delight as she went gayly home. It is such happiness...
Book I. Chapter Ii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER II. Fu stupor, fu vaghezza, fu diletto! "Gerusal. Lib.," cant. ii. xxi. ("Desire it was, 't was wonder, 't was delight." Wiffen's Translation.) Now at last the education is accomplished! Viola is nearly sixteen. The Cardinal declares th...
Book Ii. Chapter Iv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IV. Les Intelligences Celestes se font voir, et see communiquent plus volontiers, dans le silence et dans la tranquillite de la solitude. On aura donc une petite chambre ou un cabinet secret, etc. "Les Clavicules de Rabbi Salomon," chapter 3;...
Book Iii. Chapter Viii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VIII. Il lupo Ferito, credo, mi conobbe e 'ncontro Mi venne con la bocca sanguinosa. "Aminta," At. iv. Sc. i. (The wounded wolf, I think, knew me, and came to meet me with its bloody mouth.) At Naples, the tomb of Virgil, beetling over the cave...
Book Iii. Chapter Xiii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XIII. O, be gone! By Heaven, I love thee better than myself, For I came hither armed against myself. --"Romeo and Juliet." The young actress and Gionetta had returned from the theatre; and Viola fatigued and exhausted, had thrown herself...
Book Ii. Chapter Ix : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IX. Wollt ihr hoch auf ihren Flugeln schweben, Werft die Angst des Irdischen von euch! Fliehet aus dem engen dumpfen Leben In des Ideales Reich! "Das Ideal und das Leben." Wouldst thou soar heavenward on its joyous wing? Cast off the earthly...
Book Vi. Chapter Ii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER II. Tristis Erinnys Praetulit infaustas sanguinolenta faces. Ovid. (Erinnys, doleful and bloody, extends the unblessed torches.) And they placed the child in the father's arms! As silently he bent over it, tears--tears, how human!--fell from his...
Book Vii. Chapter Xiv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XIV. Dann zur Blumenflor der Sterne Aufgeschauet liebewarm, Fass' ihn freundlich Arm in Arm Trag' ihn in die blaue Ferne. --Uhland, "An den Tod." Then towards the Garden of the Star Lift up thine aspect warm with love, And, friendlike link'd...
Book Vii. Chapter Xv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XV. Il ne veulent plus perdre un moment d'une nuit si precieuse. Lacretelle, tom. xii. (They would not lose another moment of so precious a night.) It was late that night, and Rene-Francois Dumas, President of the Revolutionary Tribunal, had...
Introduction : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], INTRODUCTION. It is possible that among my readers there may be a few not unacquainted with an old-book shop, existing some years since in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden; I say a few, for certainly there was little enough to attract the many...
Book Iv. Chapter X : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER X. Aeterna aeternus tribuit, mortalia confert Mortalis; divina Deus, peritura caducus. "Aurel. Prud. contra Symmachum," lib. ii. (The Eternal gives eternal things, the Mortal gathers mortal things: God, that which is divine, and the perishable...
Book I. Chapter Ix : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IX. Che non vuol che 'l destrier piu vada in alto, Poi lo lega nel margine marino A un verde mirto in mezzo un lauro E UN PINO. "Orlando Furioso," c. vi. xxiii. (As he did not wish that his charger (the hippogriff) should take any further...
Book I. Chapter Viii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VIII. To know how a bad man will act when in power, reverse all the doctrines he preaches when obscure.--S. Montague. Antipathies also form a part of magic (falsely) so-called. Man naturally has the same instinct as the animals, which warns them...
Book Vii. Chapter Xi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XI. Le lendemain, 8 Thermidor, Robespierre se decida a prononcer son fameux discours. --Thiers, "Hist. de la Revolution." (The next day, 8th Thermidor, Robespierre resolved to deliver his celebrated discourse.) The morning rose,--the 8th...
Book Vii. Chapter Xii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XII. Aupres d'un corps aussi avili que la Convention, il restait des chances pour que Robespierre sortit vainqueur de cette lutte. Lacretelle, volume xii. (Amongst a body so debased as the Convention, there still remained some chances th...
Book Vi. Chapter Iv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IV. Plus que vous ne pensez ce moment est terrible. La Harpe, "Le Comte de Warwick," Act 3, sc. 5. (The moment is more terrible than you think.) For the first time since their union, Zanoni and Viola were separated,--Zanoni went to Rome...
Book Iv. Chapter Viii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VIII. Thus man pursues his weary calling, And wrings the hard life from the sky, While happiness unseen is falling Down from God's bosom silently. --Schiller. In one of those islands whose history the imperishable literature and renown of Athens...
Book Vii. Chapter Viii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VIII. Le glaive est contre toi tourne de toutes parties. La Harpe, "Jeanne de Naples," Act iv. sc. 4. (The sword is raised against you on all sides.) In the mean time Glyndon, after an audience of some length with C--, in which the final...
Book Iii. Chapter Iii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER III. In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes. Shakespeare. The next day, at noon, Zanoni visited Viola; and the next day and the next and again the next,--days that to her seemed like a special time set apart from the rest of life. And yet...
Preface To The Edition Of 1853 : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1853. As a work of imagination, "Zanoni" ranks, perhaps, amongst the highest of my prose fictions. In the Poem of "King Arthur," published many years afterwards, I have taken up an analogous design, in the contemplation of our...
Book Vii. Chapter Vii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VII. Constitutum est, ut quisquis eum HOMINEM dixisset fuisse, capitalem penderet poenam. --St. Augustine, "Of the God Serapis," l. 18, "de Civ. Dei," c. 5. (It was decreed, that whoso should say that he had been a MAN, should suffer...
Book Iv. Chapter Ix : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IX. There is a principle of the soul, superior to all nature, through which we are capable of surpassing the order and systems of the world. When the soul is elevated to natures better than itself, THEN it is entirely separated from subordinate...
Next. Introduction : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], INTRODUCTION. One of the peculiarities of Bulwer was his passion for occult studies. They had a charm for him early in life, and he pursued them with the earnestness which characterised his pursuit of other studies. He became absorbed in wizard lore; he...
Book Iii. Chapter Ix : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IX. Dafne: Ma, chi lung' e d'Amor? Tirsi: Chi teme e fugge. Dafne: E che giova fuggir da lui ch' ha l' ali? Tirsi: AMOR NASCENTE HA CORTE L' ALI! "Aminta," At. ii. Sc. ii. (Dafne: But, who is far from Love? Tirsi: He who fears and flies. Dafne:...
Book Vii. Chapter Xvii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XVII. THE SEVENTEENTH AND LAST. Cosi vince Goffredo! "Ger. Lib." cant. xx.-xliv. (Thus conquered Godfrey.) And Viola was in prayer. She heard not the opening of the door; she saw not the dark shadow that fell along the floor. HIS power, HIS arts...
Book Vi. Chapter Iii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER III. Fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis. Virgil. (Embraces the Earth with gloomy wings.) Letter from Zanoni to Mejnour. Mejnour, Humanity, with all its sorrows and its joys, is mine once more. Day by day, I am forging my own fetters. I live...
Note : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], NOTE. The curiosity which Zanoni has excited among those who think it worth while to dive into the subtler meanings they believe it intended to convey, may excuse me in adding a few words, not in explanation of its mysteries, but upon the principles...
Book V. Chapter V : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER V. Doch wunderbar ergriff mich's diese Nacht; Die Glieder schienen schon in Todes Macht. Uhland. (This night it fearfully seized on me; my limbs appeared already in the power of death.) A fever, attended with delirium, for several days deprived...
Book Iv. Chapter Iv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IV. It is fit that we who endeavour to rise to an elevation so sublime, should study first to leave behind carnal affections, the frailty of the senses, the passions that belong to matter; secondly, to learn by what means we may ascend...
Book Iii. Chapter Iv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IV. Between two worlds life hovers like a star 'Twixt night and morn. --Byron. When Glyndon left Viola, as recorded in the concluding chapter of the second division of this work, he was absorbed again in those mystical desires and conjectures...
Book V. Chapter Ii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER II. Faust: Wohin soll es nun gehm? Mephist: Wohin es Dir gefallt. Wir sehn die kleine, dann die grosse Welt. "Faust." (Faust: Whither go now! Mephist: Whither it pleases thee. We see the small world, then the great.) Draw your chair...
Book Iii. Chapter Xii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XII. Was ist's Das hinter diesem Schleier sich verbirgt? "Das Verschleierte Bild zu Sais." (What is it that conceals itself behind this veil?) On returning from Vesuvius or Pompeii, you enter Naples through its most animated, its most Neapolit...
Book Iv. Chapter I : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], BOOK IV.--THE DWELLER OF THE THRESHOLD. Bey hinter ihm was will! Ich heb ihn auf. "Das Verschleierte Bildzu Sais" (Be behind what there may,--I raise the veil.) CHAPTER I. Come vittima io vengo all' ara. "Metast.," At. ii. Sc. 7. (As a victim I go...
Book Ii. Chapter Ii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER II. Prende, giovine audace e impaziente, L'occasione offerta avidamente. "Ger. Lib.," c. vi. xxix. (Take, youth, bold and impatient, the offered occasion eagerly.) Clarence Glyndon was a young man of fortune, not large, but easy and independent...
Book Vi. Chapter Vii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VII. Des Erdenlebens Schweres Traumbild sinkt, und sinkt, und sinkt. "Das Ideal und das Lebens." (The Dream Shape of the heavy earthly life sinks, and sinks, and sinks.) She stood within the chamber, and gazed around her; no signs by which...
Book Vii. Chapter Xiii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XIII. Erde mag zuruck in Erde stauben; Fliegt der Geist doch aus dem morschen Haus. Seine Asche mag der Sturmwind treiben, Sein Leben dauert ewig aus! Elegie. (Earth may crumble back into earth; the Spirit will still escape from its frail...
Book I. Chapter Iv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IV. E cosi i pigri e timidi desiri Sprona. "Gerusal. Lib.," cant. iv. lxxxviii. (And thus the slow and timid passions urged.) It was the custom of Pisani, except when the duties of his profession made special demand on his time, to devote...
Book Vii. Chapter Iii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER III. Liebe sonnt das Reich der Nacht. "Der Triumph der Liebe." (Love illumes the realm of Night.) Letter from Zanoni to Mejnour. Paris. Dost thou remember in the old time, when the Beautiful yet dwelt in Greece, how we two, in the vast Atheni...
Book Iii. Chapter Vii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VII. Il ne faut appeler aucun ordre si ce n'est en tems clair et serein. "Les Clavicules du Rabbi Salomon." (No order of spirits must be invoked unless the weather be clear and serene.) Letter from Zanoni to Mejnour. My art is already dim...
Book Vi. Chapter Ix : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IX. Zukunft hast du mir gegeben, Doch du nehmst den Augenblick. "Kassandra." (Futurity hast thou given to me,--yet takest from me the Moment.) "Mejnour, behold thy work! Out, out upon our little vanities of wisdom!--out upon our ages of lore...
Dedicatory Epistle, First Prefixed : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], DEDICATORY EPISTLE First prefixed to the Edition of 1845 TO JOHN GIBSON, R.A., SCULPTOR. In looking round the wide and luminous circle of our great living Englishmen, to select one to whom I might fitly dedicate this work,--one who, in his life...
Book V. Chapter Vi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VI. La loi, dont le regne vous epouvante, a son glaive leve sur vous: elle vous frappera tous: le genre humain a besoin de cet exemple.--Couthon. (The law, whose reign terrifies you, has its sword raised against you; it will strike you all:...
Book Iii. Chapter Xvi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XVI. Ardua vallatur duris sapientia scrupis. Hadr. Jun., "Emblem." xxxvii. (Lofty wisdom is circled round with rugged rocks.) We must go back some hours in the progress of this narrative. It was the first faint and gradual break of the summer...
Book Vii. Chapter Iv : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER IV. Ombra piu che di notte, in cui di luce Raggio misto non e; .... Ne piu il palagio appar, ne piu le sue Vestigia; ne dir puossi--egli qui fue. --"Ger. Lib.", canto xvi.-lxix. (Darkness greater than of night, in which not a ray of light is...
Book Vi. Chapter V : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER V. Ce que j'ignore Est plus triste peut-etre et plus affreux encore. La Harpe, "Le Comte de Warwick," Act 5, sc. 1. (That which I know not is, perhaps, more sad and fearful still.) The casement stood open, and Viola was seated by it. Beneath...
Book Vi. Chapter Viii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VIII. Qui? Toi m'abandonner! Ou vas-tu? Non! demeure, Demeure! La Harpe, "Le Comte de Warwick," Act 3, sc. 5. (Who? THOU abandon me!--where goest thou? No! stay, stay!) Letter from Viola to Zanoni. "It has come to this!--I am the first to part...
Book Iii. Chapter V : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER V. Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still. --Shakespeare. Venerable Brotherhood, so sacred and so little known, from whose secret and precious archives the materials for this history have been drawn;...
Book Ii. Chapter Vii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VII. Learn to be poor in spirit, my son, if you would penetrate that sacred night which environs truth. Learn of the Sages to allow to the Devils no power in Nature, since the fatal stone has shut 'em up in the depth of the abyss. Learn...
Book Ii. Chapter Vi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VI. 'Tis certain that this man has an estate of fifty thousand livres, and seems to be a person of very great accomplishments. But, then, if he's a wizard, are wizards so devoutly given as this man seems to be? In short, I could make neither...
Book Ii. Chapter I : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], BOOK II.--ART, LOVE, AND WONDER. Diversi aspetti in un confusi e misti. "Ger. Lib," cant. iv. 7. Different appearances, confused and mixt in one. CHAPTER I. Centauri, e Sfingi, e pallide Gorgoni. "Ger. Lib.," c. iv. v. (Centaurs and Sphinxes and pallid...
Book V. Chapter Iii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER III. In der Welt weit Aus der Einsamkeit Wollen sie Dich locken. --"Faust." (In the wide world, out of the solitude, will these allure thee.) The next morning, at breakfast, Mrs. Mervale looked as if all the wrongs of injured woman sat upon her...
Book I. Chapter V : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER V. Quello Ippogifo, grande e strano augello Lo porta via. "Orlando Furioso," c. vi. xviii. (That hippogriff, great and marvellous bird, bears him away.) And now, accompanying this mysterious Zanoni, am I compelled to bid a short farewell...
Book Iii. Chapter X : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER X. O chiunque tu sia, che fuor d'ogni uso Pieghi Natura ad opre altere e strane, E, spiando i segreti, entri al piu chiuso Spazi' a tua voglia delle menti umane--Deh, Dimmi! "Gerus. Lib.," Cant. x. xviii. (O thou, whoever thou art, who through...
Book Vii. Chapter Xvi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XVI. Und den Mordstahl seh' ich blinken; Und das Morderauge gluhn! "Kassandra." (And I see the steel of Murder glitter, And the eye of Murder glow.) Viola was in the prison that opened not but for those already condemned before adjudged. Since...
Book Iii. Chapter Xi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XI. Was hab'ich, Wenn ich nicht Alles habe?--sprach der Jungling. "Das Verschleierte Bild zu Sais." ("What have I, if I possess not All?" said the youth.) Mervale and the Italians arrived in safety at the spot where they had left the mules;...
Zanoni Explained : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], "ZANONI EXPLAINED." BY--." MEJNOUR:--Contemplation of the Actual,--SCIENCE. Always old, and must last as long as the Actual. Less fallible than Idealism, but less practically potent, from its ignorance of the human heart. ZANONI:--Contemplati...
Book Iv. Chapter Xi : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER XI. They thus beguile the way Untill the blustring storme is overblowne, When weening to returne whence they did stray, They cannot finde that path which first was showne, But wander to and fro in waies unknowne. --Spenser's "Faerie Queene,"...
Book Vii. Chapter I : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], BOOK VII.--THE REIGN OF TERROR. Orrida maesta nei fero aspetto Terrore accresce, e piu superbo il rende; Rosseggian gli occhi, e di veneno infetto Come infausta cometa, il guardo splende, Gil involve il mento, e sull 'irsuto petto Ispida efoita la gr...
Book Ii. Chapter Viii : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER VIII. The Goddess Wisdom. To some she is the goddess great; To some the milch cow of the field; Their care is but to calculate What butter she will yield. From Schiller. This last conversation with Zanoni left upon the mind of Glynd...
Book I. Chapter X : * "Zanoni", by Edward Bulwer Lytton, [1842], CHAPTER X. Che difesa miglior ch' usbergo e scudo, E la santa innocenza al petto ignudo! "Ger. Lib.," c. viii. xli. (Better defence than shield or breastplate is holy innocence to the naked breast.) And they buried the musician and his barbiton together...
