Athens: Its Rise and Fall Book 3 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

noble elements of the pure Persian character grew confounded with the Median and Assyrian. As the Persians retreated from the manners of a nomad, they lost the distinction of a conquering people. Warriors became courtiers–the palace shrunk into the seraglio–eunuchs and favourites, queens , and above all queen-mothers, rose into pernicious and invisible influence. And

Athens: Its Rise and Fall Book 2 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

conquests of Cyrus–and a stranger to the blood of the great victor, by means of superstitious accident or political intrigue, ascended the throne of Asia, known to European history under the name of Darius. The generals of Cyrus had reduced to the Persian yoke the Ionian colonies; the Isle of Samos (the first of the

Athens: Its Rise and Fall Book 1 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Aeolus succeeded to the domain of Phthiotis, and records no conquests of his own; but attributes to his sons the origin of most of the principal families of Greece. If rightly construed, this account would denote that the Aeolians remained for a generation at least subsequent to the first migration of the Dorians, in their

Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Alice, or The Mysteries, Book XI by Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Alice, or The Mysteries, Book X by Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VIII by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Produced by Dagny, dagnypg@yahoo.com and David Widger, widger@cecomet.net BOOK VIII. O Fate! O Heaven!–what have ye then decreed? SOPHOCLES: _OEd. Tyr._ 738. “Insolent pride . . . . . . . . . The topmost crag of the great precipice Surmounts–to rush to ruin.” _Ibid._ 874. CHAPTER I. . . . SHE is young, wise,

Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VI by Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Produced by Dagny, dagnypg@yahoo.com and David Widger, widger@cecomet.net BOOK IX. “Woe, woe: all things are clear.”–SOPHOCLES: OEd. Tyr. 754. CHAPTER I. THE privilege that statesmen ever claim, Who private interest never yet pursued, But still pretended ’twas for others’ good. . . . . . . From hence on every humorous wind that veered With

Alice, or The Mysteries, Book IV by Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Alice, or The Mysteries, Book III by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Produced by Dagny, dagnypg@yahoo.com and David Widger, widger@cecomet.net BOOK III. Harsh things he mitigates, and pride subdues. _Ex._ SOLON: _Eleg._ CHAPTER I. YOU still are what you were, sir! . . . . . . . . . With most quick agility could turn And return; make knots and undo them, Give forked counsel.–_Volpone, or