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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎41v] (87/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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572
THE NINETEENTH
April
lived, and Goethe's romance of old age lias remained without an
English imitator. On this account will be found of supreme
interest as well as inexpressibly touching by all who knew Lord
Lytton either personally or as the young love-poet he was to readers
in his days of ' Owen Meredith.' What a world of astonishing ex
periences has filled the interval between the publication of the two
volumes, Mar ah and The Wanderer ; what grandeurs of ambition,
what sublimities of power enjoyed, what dealings with princes and
potentates, what honours reaped, what public obloquy endured—
the Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). at Delhi, the Afghan War, Cavagnari's death, his
great success at Paris, all in the eye of the universe, and to end in
the same hankering after an ideal happiness which could not be
attained, the same grief at life's little meed of pleasure, the same
tears, only how much bitterer!
1
Eoll waves! To rest refused I too aspire.
Weep clouds ! I too slied tears that fall in yain.
Lightnings, illuminate ye my drear desire !
Thunder, be thou the echo of my pain !
2
Black shrouded midnight, shuddering with cold sighs,
And fearful with faint creepings, gather all
Thy ghosts and spectres ! Bid them each, devise
New horrors to adorn thy sable hall!
3
For the drear drama the drear stage prepare,
Deck it with deluge, garland it with storm,
Assemble all the Powers of Darkness there,
And what I suffer let them then perform !
4
Not long will they their fleeting parts sustain
In the fixt misery I endure alone.
To-morrow's sun will scatter to-night's rain ;
When comes the dawn the darkness will be gone.
5
To-morrow will the storm have spent its force ;
But mine will be to-morrow, and to-morrow
The same unutterable discontent.
Stung by the same intolerable sorrow!
These are among the latest of the lines he wrote, and all the
best in Marah are in the same despairing key. They might have
been written by a very young man at odds with life before he
had known it—for in age we learn to conceal our griefs—yet Lord
Lytton was nearly sixty years old. How pathetic, too, is this
other!

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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