Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ucated in private schools, and atseventeen entered a solicitors office. Attwenty-two he published * Mvian Grey *(London, 1826), which readable and amus-ing take-off of London society gave him great and instantaneous noto-riety. Its minute descriptions of the great world, its caricatures t)fwell-known social and political personages, its magnificent diction.— too magnificent to be taken quite seriously, — excited inquiry; andthe great world was amazed to discover that the impertinent observerwas not one of themselves, but a Ijov in a
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ucated in private schools, and atseventeen entered a solicitors office. Attwenty-two he published * Mvian Grey *(London, 1826), which readable and amus-ing take-off of London society gave him great and instantaneous noto-riety. Its minute descriptions of the great world, its caricatures t)fwell-known social and political personages, its magnificent diction.— too magnificent to be taken quite seriously, — excited inquiry; andthe great world was amazed to discover that the impertinent observerwas not one of themselves, but a Ijov in a lawyers office. To addto the audacity, lie had conceived himself the liero of these divertingsituations, and by his cleverness had outwitted age. beauty, rank,dijilomacy itself. Statesmen, ]:)oets, fine ladies, were all genuinely amused; and tlieauthor bade fair to become a lion, when he fell ill, and was com-pelled to leave England for a year or more, which lie spent in travelon the Continent and in ICgypt, Nubia, and Palestine. His visit to III—101. Lord Beaconsfield 1634 LORD BEACONSFIELD the birthplace of his race made an impression on him that lastedthrough his life and literature. It is embodied in his (London, 1843), and the autobiographical novel > But literary success could never satisfy Disraelis ambition: a seatin Parliament was at the end of his rainbow. He professed himsel
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