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Updated: May 11, 2025
The following extract from BULWER'S Athens briefly yet fully tells what was accomplished in this direction: "The Constitution previous to Solon was an oligarchy of birth. Solon rendered it an aristocracy of property.
Colonel Poyntz, in one of Bulwer's novels, 'masculine in a womanly way. There is a real spirit of ethical divination in some of her criticism of character. Take the distinguished man whose name we have just written.
I have said it and heard it many times, and occasionally met with something like it in books, somewhere in Bulwer's novels, I think, and in one of the works of Mr. Olmsted, I know. Memory, imagination, old sentiments and associations, are more readily reached through the sense of SMELL than by almost any other channel.
The third is on My Novel, which he says he has "read with great pleasure, though Bulwer's nature is by no means a perfect one either, which makes itself felt in his book; but his gush, his better humour, his abundant materials, and his mellowed constructive skill all these are great things." One would give many pages of the Letters for that naïf admission that "gush" is "a great thing."
Of course, however, there was a man hidden somewhere in Edward Bulwer's perfumed clothes and mincing attitudes, else the world had long since forgotten him. Amidst his dandyism, he learned how to speak well in debate and how to use his hands to guard his head; he paid his debts by honest hard work, and would not be dishonorably beholden to his mother or any one else.
Take Bulwer's account of the first few weeks of his sojourn at Malvern, and you will read, in very elegant English, the story of an experience of pleasure which has surprised and delighted many a patient at a water-cure.
Bulwer's talents and reputation would expose himself to certain ridicule by so childish and undiplomatic a declaration. Such loose and improbable statements need confirmation. Very graphic and interesting is Mr.
Again Ian turned to her: was it possible there were tears in her voice? But her black eyes were flashing in the starlight! "Did you ever read Zanoni?" he asked. "I never heard of it. What is it?" "A romance of Bulwer's." "My father won't let us read anything of Bulwer's. Does he write very wicked books?"
To be sure, there are giants who are rich to overflowing through a whole shelf of books, Shakespeare, the mutual ancestor of Englishmen and Americans, above all, and I think the much that they did, and did well, will be the great hold on posterity of Scott and of Byron. Have you happened to see Bulwer's King Arthur? It astonished me very much.
Beside the gods there were spirits that could be called from the grave by wizards, although this power rested only with the strongest and most righteous of the class. The soul of a living creature might also leave his body and exhibit itself to one at a distance, as Margrave projected his luminous apparition in Bulwer's "Strange Story."
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