'Held in bondage'; or, Granville de Vigne, by Ouida, Volume 1

Marie Louise De la Ramée

1863

Contents

• CHAP PAGE I The Senior Pupil of the Chancery: 1
• A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky proclaim it a Hunting Morning 28 88888: 28
• In the Academic Shades of Granta: 50
• A Subtle Poison drunk in the Champagne at an Opera Supper: 84
• What was under the Cards: 117
• A Doubleddown Page in the Colonels Book of Life: 121
• The Little Queen of the Fairies: 141
• The Forging of the Fetters: 162
• The Blow that a Woman Dealt: 196
• On the First Day of a New Year: 220
• The Charmed Life Comes Back among Us: 234
• Sabretasche having mowed down many Flowers determines to spare one Violet: 261
• The Queen of the Fairies is found in Richmond: 297
• How a Wife talked of her Husband: 314

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Page 252 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...‎

Page 194 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume...‎

Page 191 - Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? And the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable, that "whether he should choose one or not, he would repent it.‎

Page 236 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone...‎

Page 229 - I hold more in the way to perfection who foregoes an unfit, ungodly, and discordant wedlock, to live according to peace and love and God's institution in a fitter choice, than he who debars himself the happy experience of all godly, which is peaceful conversation in his family, to live a contentious and unchristian life not to be avoided, in temptations not to be lived in, only for the fal^e keeping of a most unreal nullity...‎

Page 230 - God's intentions, a daring phantasm, a mere toy of terror ; awing weak senses, to the lamentable superstition of ruining themselves, the remedy whereof God in his law •vouchsafes us ; which, not to dare use, he warranting, is not our perfection, but is our infirmity, our little faith, our timorous and low conceit of charity, and in them who force us to it, is their masking pride and vanity to seem holier and more circumspect than God.‎

Page 128 - And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had threshed the corn...‎

Page 60 - Reckless devil-may-care, the man looked the recklessness of one who heeds nothing in heaven or earth — a little hardened by the world and its rubs, rendered cynical, perhaps, by injustice and wrong — but in the eyes there lay a kindness, and in the mouth a sadness which betokened better things. He might have been thirty, five-and-thirty, forty. One could no more tell his age than his character, though, looking at him, one could fancy it true what the world said of him — that no man ever found...‎

Page 120 - by night, and the wild working of kings' ambitious lust ; to know by intuition, alike the voices of nature unheard by common ears, and the fierce schemes and passions of a world from which social position shut him out ! I picture him in his hot imaginative youth, finding his first love in the yeoman's daughter at Shottery, strolling with her by the Avon, making her an 'odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds,' and dressing her up in the fond array of a boy's poetic imaginings!‎

Page 229 - ... himself the happy experience of all godly, which is peaceful conversation in his family, to live a contentious and unchristian life not to be avoided, in temptations not to be lived in, only for the false keeping of a most unreal nullity, a marriage that hath no affinity with God's intention, a daring phantasm, a mere toy of terror awing weak senses, to the lamentable superstition of ruining themselves ; the remedy whereof God in his law vouchsafes us. Which not to dare use, he warranting, is...‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: 'Held in bondage'; or, Granville de Vigne, by Ouida, Volume 1; 'Held in bondage'; or, Granville de Vigne, by Ouida, Marie Louise De la Ramée
• Author: Marie Louise De la Ramée
• Published: 1863
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Jul 24, 2006