# Devereux — Volume 05

Author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873

Genre: Historical Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7628

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Devereux+Lytton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

MYSTERIOUS impulse at the heart, which never suffers us to be at rest, which urges us onward as by an unseen yet irresistible law--human planets in a petty orbit, hurried forever and forever, till our course is run and our light is quenched--through the circle of a dark and impenetrable destiny! art thou not some faint forecast and type of our wanderings hereafter; of the unslumbering nature of the soul; of the everlasting progress which we are predoomed to make through the countless steps and realms and harmonies in the infinite creation? Oh, often in my rovings have I dared to dream so,--often have I soared on the wild wings of thought above the "smoke and stir" of this dim earth, and w...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/devereux-volume-05-7628/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/devereux-volume-05-7628/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/devereux-volume-05-7628/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/devereux-volume-05-7628/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/devereux-volume-05-7628/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/devereux-volume-05-7628/chapters/3/index.md)