It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome. At
In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.
He had discovered that it was easier – far easier than any one could have supposed – to make oneself mad, but like all magic it was full of obstacles and frustrations. Even if he succeeded in summonin...
Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.
For a moment or two before the spell took effect, he was aware of all the sounds around him: rain splashing on metal and leather, and running down canvas; horses shuffling and snorting; Englishmen sin...
But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define.
Perhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss?
The silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.
It seemed to him as if Mr Norrell had discovered some fifth point of the compass – not east, nor south, nor west, nor north, but somewhere quite different and this was the direction in which he led th...
He belonged to a certain breed of gentlemen, only to be met with in London, whose main occupation is the wearing of expensive and fashionable clothes; how they pass their lives in ostentatious idlenes...
There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure. It is, after all, what everyone does all the time.
There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
The sky spoke to me, said Childermass. If what I saw was true, then … He paused. Then what? asked Mr Norrell. In his weakened state Childermass had been thinking aloud. He had meant to say that if wha...
The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.
The President of the York society (whose name was Dr Foxcastle) turned to John Segundus and explained that the question was a wrong one. It presupposes that magicians have some sort of duty to do magi...
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.
Shape-changing and so on were all very well in the past. It makes a vivid incident in a story, I grant you. But surely, Strange, you would not want to practise it? A gentleman cannot change his shape....
Palavra de honra, não existe nada no mundo tão fácil de explicar como o fracasso... É, afinal de contas, o que todo mundo alcança o tempo inteiro.
Of all the tiresome situations in the world, thought the Prince Regent, the most tiresome was to rise from one’s bed in a state of uncertainty as to whether or not one was the ruler of Great Britain.
Nan told me Clegg had been hanged for stealing a book, but the charge Robert Findhelm brought against him was not theft. The charge Findhelm brought against him was book-murder.