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Apr 5, 2012 · I am very glad you are not there; I believe you might as well be at Rome.” And then in due course, and after some talk of the past and old times, Lothair referred to the suggestions of Mr. Giles, and hinted at a meeting of his guardians to confer and advise together.
Lothair (1870) was a late novel by Benjamin Disraeli, the first he wrote after his first term as Prime Minister. It deals with the comparative merits of the Catholic and Anglican churches as heirs of Judaism, and with the topical question of Italian unification.
If you ever wanted to understand romanticism, Lothair is your book! The title character epitomizes the young romantic hero. Lothair is born into wealth but raised by two guardians, a Scottish protestant and an Anglican priest converted to Roman Catholicism, who subsequently was elevated to cardinal.
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The hero, Lothair, is a wealthy young nobleman determined to seek the true path. When his parents die he is left to the guardianship of Lord Culloden, a member of the Scottish Kirk, and the brilliant cleric Grandison, who adopts the Catholic faith and becomes a cardinal.
The duchess one of the greatest heiresses of Britain singularly beautify and gifted with native grace had married in her teens one of the wealthiest and most powerful of our nobles and scarcely order than herself.
Popular passages. Page 15 - Above the middle height, his stature seemed magnified by the attenuation of his form. It seemed that the soul never had so frail and fragile a tenement. He was dressed...
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Title: Lothair. Author: Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881. Note: 3 volumes; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870. Link: Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org.
