Beaconsfield

Cited as Beaconsfield. — 20 quotations

Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy.

He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions.

Choice pictures and creations of curious art.

You know who the critics are? the men who have failed in literature and art.

A few old battered crones of office.

All now depends upon a good cry.

Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf.

It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions.

He hailed a cruising hansom . . . “ 'Tis the gondola of London,” said Lothair.

The millions of the loanmonger.

The misfortune of being a mediatized prince.

You have . . . dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise.

Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision.

The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.

Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.

A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him.

The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short.

On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about.

A man who swaggers about London clubs.

The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century.