Born in London, Bulwer-Lytton was one of the most popular writers of the 19th century. His work spanned a wide range of genres, including historical novels with 'The Last Days of Pompeii' and 'Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes', Gothic novels with 'Zicci', and social novels with 'Pelham'. He also wrote poetry and plays, with 'Richelieu' and 'The Lady of Lyons' being notable examples. As a politician, he was a Member of Parliament and Secretary of State for the Colonies. Despite his popular success, literary critics often considered him verbose and melodramatic. He died in Torquay, England.
Poems List
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As— fail .
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.
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What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.
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Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and, if you cannot contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.
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The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the mature life.
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