..parasites seldom altogether abandon a monarch so long as the crown still glitters on his head. (“The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah”)

William Beckford

Stichwörter: king parasites monarch



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No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

William Beckford

Stichwörter: future



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At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.

William Beckford

Stichwörter: absurdity echo calamity



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