| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1841 - 628 pages
...not been their study. Why so many fail of happiness here? "In that lexicon of youth which religion reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail." The newspaper, and tlie clirap publications, have been sent lo the poor, and ihey have drawn him »way... | |
| 1848 - 780 pages
...strongly brings to mind the passage in Richelieu, Fail : fail ! In the leiicon of youth, which fnte reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As— Fail. " Speak I will, or give up the profession, for I had much rather earn my daily subsistence by hoeing... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1839 - 168 pages
...packet, think your guardian star Rains fortune on you ! FRANCOIS. If I fail— RICHELIEU. Fail! fail! In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As fail ! (You will instruct him further, Marion.) Follow her, but at distance ; speak not to her Till you... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1839 - 172 pages
...— think your guardian Star Rains fortune on you ! FRANCOIS, If I fail— RICHEL1KU. Fail— fail ? In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As — fail ! — (You will instruct him further, Marion) 90 Follow her — but at distance ; — speak not to... | |
| 1839 - 568 pages
...received. IfBulwer had embodied the early career of Mr. Carey, he might well have said of him, that, " In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word Asfail." Actuated by this dauntless spirit, he immediately commenced a newspaper in Philadelphia, called... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1840 - 444 pages
...Horace St. John had been disappointed but not discouraged. Well has a modern writer exclaimed : — "In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail I " and Horace St. John was not disposed to insert it there. Gertrude's account excited a lively, but... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1841 - 322 pages
...of years suddenly swept away by accident, misfortune, or fraud, it teaches the important truth, that "In the Lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As FAIL ;" that undaunted resolution, rigid economy, close calculation, prudent management, aided by renewed... | |
| John Frost - 1844 - 282 pages
...received. If Bulwer had embodied the early career of Mr. Carey, he might well have said of him, that, " In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As fail." Actuated by this dauntless spirit, he immediately commenced a newspaper in Philadelphia, called the... | |
| Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - 634 pages
...that packet, think your guardian star Rains fortune on you ! Fran. If I fail— Rich. Fail— fail ? In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a...bright manhood, there is no such word As — -fail! — You will instruct him further, Marion. Follow her — but at distance ; — speak not to her, Till... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 pages
...to see any difficulty * In Bulwer's tragedy of Richelieu, the Cardinal is made to say : "Fail I Fiat In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As /oil.• Farewell, boy— never say fail again." Act ii., Scvu 2, whatever in his military plans. When,... | |
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