Broken bonds, Svazek 3

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Strana 301 - FREE RUSSIA. By W. HEPWORTH DIXON. Third Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, with Coloured Illustrations. 30s. "Mr. Dixon's book will be certain not only to interest but to please its readers and it deserves to do so. It contains a great deal that is worthy of attention, and is likely to produce a very useful effect."— Saturday Review.
Strana 298 - Dixon dashes off the scenes of Tower history with great spirit. His descriptions are given with such terseness and vigour that we should spoil them by any attempt at condensation. As favourable examples of his narrative powers we may call attention to the story of the beautiful but unpopular Elinor, Queen of Henry III,, and the description of Anne Boleyn's first and second arrivals at the Tower.
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Strana 298 - ... years a prisoner in the Tower. Next we encounter the baleful form of Richard of Gloucester, and are filled with indignation at the blackest of the black Tower deeds. As we draw nearer to modern times, we have the sorrowful story of the Nine Days' Queen, poor little Lady Jane Grey. The chapter entitled "No Cross, no Crown " is one of the most affecting in the book. A mature man can scarcely read it without feeling the tears ready to trickle from his eyes. No part of the first volume yields in...
Strana 300 - The book is a pleasant book, and will be found excellent reading. All those to whom the good name of Byron is dear, will read with an. almost exquisite pleasure the testimony given by Harness. The fine qualities of the man are set forth, without any attempt to conceal his errors or his vices ; as regards the latter, there is shown to have been gross exaggeration in the report of them.
Strana 294 - Litolff, &c., whether as composers or executants,, are in a liberal spirit He recognizes cheerfully the talents of our native artists. Sir Sterndale Bennett, Mr. Macfarren, Madame Arabella Goddard, Mr. John Barnett, Mr. Hullah, Mrs. Shaw, Mr. A. Sullivan, &c. The celebrities with whom Moscheles came in contact, include Sir Walter Scott, Sir Robert Peel, the late Duke of Cambridge, the Bunsens, Louis Philippe, Napoleon the Third, Humboldt, Henry Heine, Thomas More, Count Nesselrode, the Duchess of...
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Strana 299 - Countess of Nithisdale; Escaped, Cause of the Pretender; Reformers and Reform , Reform Riots; Sir Francis Burdett; A Summons to the Tower; Arthur Thistlewood; A Cabinet Council; Cato Street; Pursuit; Last Prisoners in the Tower. " Mr. Dixon's lively and accurate work.

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