 I felt all my energies. I walked up and down the hall in a phrensy of ambition, and I thirsted for action. There seemed to me no achievement of which I was not capable, and of which I was not ambitious. In imagination I shook thrones and founded empires.  Contarini Fleming. Alroy. Romances - Page 264by Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1832 - 204 pages
...them, and which promised the speedy attainment of the satisfactory arrangement which shortly afterward took place. The conference broke up, my father retired...was not ambitious. In imagination, I shook thrones nnd founded empires. I felt myself a being born to breathe in an atmosphere of revolution. My father... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1846 - 398 pages
...who watched every turn, made a vehement representation in our favour, and the conference broke 159 up with an expression of irresolution and surprise...died. It was one of those stern, sublime sunsets, whrch is almost the only appearance in the North in which Nature enchanted me. I stood at the window,... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1870 - 116 pages
...felt that I had done a great action. I felt all my energies. I walked up and down the hall in a frenzy of ambition, and I thirsted for action. There seemed...thrones and founded empires. I felt myself a being bom to breathe in an. atmosphere of revolution. My father came not. Time wore away, and the day died.... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1878 - 480 pages
...felt that I had done a great action. I felt all my energies. I walked up and down the hall in a frenzy of ambition, and I thirsted for action. There seemed...breathe in an atmosphere of revolution. My father canio not. Time wore away, and the day died. It was one of those stern, sublime sunsets, which is almost... | |
 | Thomas Power O'Connor - Great Britain - 1879 - 736 pages
...that I had done a great action. I felt all my energies. I walked up and down the hall in a phreuzy of ambition, and I thirsted for action. There seemed...father came not. Time wore away, and the day died. [t was one of those stern, sublime sunsets, which is almost the only appearance in the north in which... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1880 - 410 pages
...power than for a famous name ?—" I felt all my energies. I walked up and down the hall in a frenzy of ambition, and I thirsted for action. There seemed...being born to breathe in an atmosphere of revolution." t * " Contarini Fleming," p. 33. f Ibid., p. 176. At this moment his father comes to him and prophesies... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1880 - 1614 pages
...has never ceased to move him forward. ' I felt all my energies,' he says in ' Contarini Fleming.' ' I thirsted for action. There seemed to me. no achievement of which I was not capable. In imagination I shook thrones and founded empires.' Even such dreams of youthful ambition may be said... | |
 | 1880 - 868 pages
...has never ceased to move him forward. ' I felt all my energies,' he says in ' Contarini Fleming.' ' I thirsted for action. There seemed to me no achievement of which I was not capable. In imagination I shook thrones and founded empires.' Even such dreams of youthful ambition may be said... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 490 pages
...that I had done a great action. I felt all my energiefi. I walked np and down the hall in a frenzy of ambition, and I thirsted for action. There seemed...imagination I shook thrones and founded empires. I folt myself a being born to breathe in an atmosphere of revolution. My father came not. Time wore away,... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - Great Britain - 1910 - 468 pages
...walked up and down the hall in a frenzy of ambition, and I thirsted for action. There seemed to be no achievement of which I was not capable, and of...Time wore away, and the day died. It was one of those stem, sublime sunsets, which is almost the only appearance in the north in which nature enchanted me.... | |
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