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  • At the end of the term Coningsby took his degree, and in a few days was about to quit that university where, on the whole, he had passed three serene and happy years in the society of fond and faithful friends, and in ennobling pursuits.

    Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • They're a group known collectively as The Young England Trilogy that were published when he was a young member of Parliament -- the first one called Coningsby, the second one called Sybil and the third called Tancred.

    Disraeli: A Biography 1994

  • When they had arrived there, Sidonia ordered their dinner instantly, and during the interval between the command and its appearance, he called Coningsby's attention to an old

    Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • In "Coningsby" they sing canticles and carry about the boar's head; in "Sibyl" they sing hymns to the Holy Virgin and the song of labor, and steal title-deeds, after setting houses on fire to distract attention from their immediate object; and in "Tancred" they go on pilgrimage to the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

  • Disraeli to treat the questions of common interest in a literary form, and the powerful works -- rather treatises than novels -- "Coningsby" and

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • In his novels of "Coningsby," "Sybil" and "Tancred," he argues with great skill and adroit sophistry that a landed aristocracy is necessary to a progressive civilization.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • Passions don't do for the drawing-room, as somebody says in 'Coningsby'; besides -- I would not feel a strong emotion for the universe.

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • Of the three, 'Coningsby' will prove the most entertaining to the modern reader.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Mr. Buckstone informed the Parliamentary Committee that an attempt made about 1846, to represent the House of Commons upon the stage of the Adelphi -- Mr. Buckstone was to have personated the Lord John Russell of that date -- had been promptly forbidden; and the late Mr. Shirley Brooks stated that a project of dramatising Mr. Disraeli's novel of "Coningsby" had also, in regard to its political bearing, been interdicted by the Chamberlain.

    A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856

  • From this point of view, accordingly, "Coningsby" is appropriately included in this series.

    Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

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