Agnes de Mansfeldt Volume 1; A Historical Tale (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...said Ghebhard Truchses, with a sigh, and not heeding the interruptions we have noticed. " True, our hearts are always rife with reasons to justify our desires. Alas, that our heads should so often refuse to sanctify the fiat " " Methinks, your highness, there are cases in which there is little wisdom in appealing from the breast to the brain." " Think you so, indeed? you have seen much of life, and deeply into the human mind. And think you that happiness is to be found in following each impulse of the heart?" VOL. I. H " In the pursuit of beauty, yes; love is a passion not to be judged by common rules. Fools only would subject it to vulgar tests. Your highness's worst enemies don't accuse you of being one " " Me nay, why fix on me a general remark, as though I were its only application?" "In questions of feeling we should never talk abstractedly--they are all personal. And who might be a better application for whatever appertains to love, than he who is avowedly the most successful man of his day?" " Has been, count, has been happy, from time to time--but those hours are past, '" said the elector, with a subdued smile; the recollection of by-gone joys checking the flush of pride raised by the Italian's insidious flattery. " As good days are in the calendar now as the very best of former enjoyment. As bright eyes are beaming in this very town as ever shone. As witching charms are within your reach as ever were in elf-land. Life is still young. Your highness said erewhile, that wine could make it perennial. What then may not be done by love and beauty?" " These are wild words, count, but there is a witchery in them. The very name of love, the very look of beauty is a spell &q...