Well, surely, you will agree that a great improvement could be made simply by cutting down those trees that crowd about the house so much and darken every room? They grow just as they please – just wh...
Who was it that said a magician needs the subtlety of a Jesuit, the daring of a soldier and the wits of a thief? I believe it was meant for a insult, but it has some truth in it.
You must get me a house, Childermass, he said. Get me a house that says to those that visit it that magic is a respectable profession – no less than Law and a great deal more so than Medicine.
A cold, miserable little hamlet on the eastern coast of America called Piper’s Grave.
A tragi-comedy, telling of an impoverished minister’s desperate attempts to gain money by any means, beginning with a mercenary marriage and ending with sorcery. I should think it might be received ve...
Room was crowded with officers bringing reports or collecting orders, or simply gathering gossip. At one end of the room was a very venerable, ornate and crumbling
The more apparatus a magician carries about with him – coloured powders, stuffed cats, magical hats and so forth – the greater the fraud you will eventually discover him to be! And what, inquired Mr H...
When the fairy sang, the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time th...
Would not, I imagine, suggest that it is the task of botanists to devise more flowers? Or that astronomers should labour to rearrange the stars? Magicians, Mr Segundus, study magic which was done long...
You must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.
Immediately he became convinced that all the cupboards in the house were full of pineapples.
An evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).
The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.
A man as talented and handsome as yourself ought not be a servant! he said in a shocked tone. He ought to be the ruler of a vast estate! What is beauty for, I should like to know, if not to stand as a...
Ah, but sir,' said Lascelles, 'it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the ea...
All these details took but a moment to apprehend yet the impression made upon Mr. Segundus by the two ladies was unusually vivid --almost supernaturally so-- like images in a delirium. A queer shock t...
And I hope that all my readers are acquainted with an old English Cathedral town or I fear the significance of Mr Norrell’s chusing that particular place will be lost upon them. They must understand t...
And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!
Beautiful flames, can destroy so many things—prison walls that hold you, stitches that bind you fast.
Believe me when I tell you that ten, twenty, even fifty years of silence is worth the satisfaction of knowing at the end that you have said what you ought – no more, no less.
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