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Chronicles and Characters

By Robert Lytton (Owen Meredith): In Two Volumes

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891)

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I.

I.

I.OPIS AND ARGE.

II.

II.CROESUS AND ADRASTUS.

III.

III.GYGES AND CANDAULES.

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II.

THANATOS ATHANATOU.

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III.

BOOK III. ROMANCES.

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I.

PART I. THE TIME.

II.

PART II. THE MAN.

III.

PART III. THE GODS.

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IV.

PART IV. THE PAST.

I.

II.

III.

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V.

PART V. THE PRESENT.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

PART VI. THE FUTURE.

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IV.

THE SCROLL AND ITS INTERPRETERS.

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V.

BOOK V. LEGENDS AND ROMANCES.

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THE ROSES OF SAADI.

I.

I.MOSES AND THE DERVISH.

II.

II.THE BOY AND THE RING.

III.

III.THE EYES OF MAHMUD.

THE APPLE OF LIFE.

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VI.

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THE SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

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I.

I.

I.THE EMPEROR ISAAC.

II.

III.

III.AND SO IS HIS BROTHER ALEXIUS: WHO PROPOSES

IV.

IV.A PARTY OF PLEASURE.

V.

V.WHICH ENDS UNPLEASANTLY.

VI.

VI.OUT OF THE LIGHT, INTO THE DARK.

VII.

VII.ALEXIUS THE YOUNGER FLIES FROM ALEXIUS THE ELDER.

VIII.

VIII.AND TRIES HIS FORTUNES AND HIS FRIENDS.

IX.

IX.A GREAT MAN.

X.

X.AND SOME NOTABLE MEN.

XI.

XI.LE VALET DE CONSTANTINOPLE.

XII.

XII.A BLIND MAN SEES FAR.

XIII.

XIII.QUOT HOMINES TOT SENTENTIAE.

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II.

I.

I. THE EMPEROR MAKES A PROCLAMATION.

II.

II. AND RECEIVES THE AMBASSADORS.

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III.

VOL. II. BOOK VI. (Continued.) THE SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

I.

I.HOW THE EMPEROR PICKED UP WHAT THE DEVIL LET FALL.

II.

II.GAVE AWAY WHAT HE NO LONGER POSSESSED.

III.

III.WHAT WAS SHOWN TO THEOCRITE, THE MONK.

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I.

II.

III.

III.BY SEA AND LAND

IV.

IV.IS TRIUMPHANT.

V.

VI.

VI.TWO BLIND MEN.

VII.

VII.THE DOGE IS OBSTINATE.

VIII.

IX.

IX.A DARK DEED.

X.

X.THE FULNESS OF TIME.

XI.

XI.THE HORSES OF LYSIPPUS.

XII.

XII.AND THE LION OF ST. MARK.

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VII.

BOOK VII. LEGENDS, BALLADS, AND ROMANCES.

FAREWELL TO THE HOLY LANDS.

DOGE ORSO'S NIGHT'S WORK.

SALZBURGENSIS VAGABUNDUS.

A KING AND A QUEEN.

FAIR YOLAND WITH THE YELLOW HAIR.

TRIAL BY COMBAT.

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RABBI BEN EPHRAIM'S TREASURE.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

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CATTERINA CORNARO.

I.

II.

III.

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VIII.

BOOK VIII. NARRATIVE, DRAMATIC, AND LYRICAL.

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I.

II.

III.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

THOMAS MÜNTZER TO MARTIN LUTHER.

ADOLPHUS, DUKE OF GUELDERS.

THE DUKE'S LABORATORY.

JOHN PETER CARAFA.

CHRISTIAN, THE DOL-HARTZOG.

ELISABETTA SIRANI.

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I.

II.

II THE THREE ESTATES.

III.

III. WALLENSTEIN'S DEATH.

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IX.

BOOK IX. HERE AND THERE.

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I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

A MAN OF SCIENCE

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III.

But, however we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.
Even a Pope must finish his fill,
And follow his time, be it feast time or fast time.
As it happen'd with this same Pope. No doubt
What sleep was his after that last bout,
When he could not wake! so they laid him out.
‘He is gone,’ they said, ‘where there's no returning.
Of the college who is the next to come?’
Then they set the bells tolling, the tapers burning,
And bore him up into Peter's dome.