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After Brougham and Brewster came a long succession of other notables, including the novelist Sir Bulwer Lytton, to whom a most edifying experience was granted. Rapping away as usual, the table suddenly indicated that it had a message for him, and the alphabet being called over in the customary spiritistic style, it spelled out: "I am the spirit who influenced you to write Zanoni."
The poet plunged into "Zanoni," which he had read in the days of his boyhood as one reads a fairy-tale, and he and Mrs Ray Jefferson, being the greatest enthusiasts, held long and learned and quite unintelligible discussions over these mysterious subjects, with a view to being able to hold their own with the beautiful proselytiser when she should deign to come amongst them all once more.
In his early life he wrote poems and dramas, under the influence of Byron; but his first notable work, Pelham , one of the best of his novels, was a kind of burlesque on the Byronic type of gentleman. Lytton essayed also, with considerable popular success, the romantic novel in The Pilgrims of the Rhine and Zanoni, and tried the ghost story in The Haunted and the Haunters.
The calling of the voices in Brockden Brown’s novel of ‘Wieland’ is awful; so is the picture of the Dweller on the Threshold, in Bulwer’s ‘Zanoni;’ but,” he added, shaking his head gloomily, “there is something more horrible still than these.” “Look here, Hammond,” I rejoined, “let us drop this kind of talk, for Heaven’s sake! We shall suffer for it, depend on it.”
"Young," said Narkom in reply. "Very young, not yet four-and-twenty, in fact, and very, very beautiful. That is she who is 'featured' on the bill as the star of the equestrian part of the programme: 'Mlle. Marie de Zanoni. So far as I have been able to gather, the affair was a love match.
Do you remember telling me once that 'Zanoni' was a splendid book, and that I ought to read it?" "Pshaw! No. I must have been a young fool. But it seems that I had the grace even then to desire your sympathy." "I assure you I read it most reverently down in Wiltshire, where Nelly kept a select library of fiction concealed underneath her mattress; and I believed every word of it.
He spoke quietly, though his heart gave a throb of relief at her words. "Yes. I can't remember her address." Her brows contracted pitifully. "But she works in the library of an Italian called Zanoni is that enough? Can you find her from that?" "Why, yes, dear." He knew it would only be a matter of time to trace the girl now. "And you must not worry about her any more.
Yes, we are now stepping upon the plane of reason and intuition, where right, not might, will prevail and rule the world. The present mode of government and rule will be changed, and one of humanitarian justice take its place. God hasten the Millenium. By ZANONI Thy temple is the arch Of yon unmeasured sky; Thy Sabbath the stupendous march Of grand eternity.
His name is very dear to mystic novelists, like the author of "Zanoni." They always describe their favourite hero as "deep in Plotinus or Iamblichus," and I venture to think that nearly represents the depth of their own explorations. We do not know exactly when Plotinus was born. He was not weaned till he was eight years old, a singular circumstance.
'Dick Turpin, 'The Lives of Forty Robbers, and 'Sixteen-String Jack. But one day as The Lifter left the lair to go to Muddy York he put a guinea in his hand and a slip of paper containing the titles of certain books that he desired him to bring back. These were 'The Abbot, 'The Monastery, 'Zanoni, and 'Anson's Voyages. He likewise put a sealed letter into his hand directed to
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