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... hours to literary composition , and she published in succession the following works : -The Two Mentors , a Modern Story ; The Progress of Romance , through Times , Countries , and Manners ; The Exile ; or , Memoirs of Count de Cronstadt ...
... hours to literary composition , and she published in succession the following works : -The Two Mentors , a Modern Story ; The Progress of Romance , through Times , Countries , and Manners ; The Exile ; or , Memoirs of Count de Cronstadt ...
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... hour , and the next day expired . Sir Philip was under great concern for the loss of his servant , and some for himself , being alone in a strange place ; however , he took courage , ordered his servant's funeral , attended it himself ...
... hour , and the next day expired . Sir Philip was under great concern for the loss of his servant , and some for himself , being alone in a strange place ; however , he took courage , ordered his servant's funeral , attended it himself ...
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... hour young John returned . " Thou hast made haste , ” said the father . " Not more than good speed , " quoth the son . " Tell us , then , how you sped ? " " Shall I tell all that passed ? " said John . ઃ ' All , " said the father ...
... hour young John returned . " Thou hast made haste , ” said the father . " Not more than good speed , " quoth the son . " Tell us , then , how you sped ? " " Shall I tell all that passed ? " said John . ઃ ' All , " said the father ...
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... hour of dinner the young men presented themselves before their lord and his guest . Sir Philip addressed himself to Edmund ; he asked him many questions , and received modest and intelligent answers , and he grew every minute more ...
... hour of dinner the young men presented themselves before their lord and his guest . Sir Philip addressed himself to Edmund ; he asked him many questions , and received modest and intelligent answers , and he grew every minute more ...
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... hours they were ready to set out . Wenlock and Markham , and their dependants , found themselves engaged in honour to go upon an enter- prise they never intended , and set out with heavy hearts to join the party . They marched in ...
... hours they were ready to set out . Wenlock and Markham , and their dependants , found themselves engaged in honour to go upon an enter- prise they never intended , and set out with heavy hearts to join the party . They marched in ...
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acquaint affection Alfonso answer attend Baron Fitz-Owen Bianca blessings brother called Castle of Lovel Castle of Otranto chamber child CLARA REEVE cried Manfred daughter dear death desired door Edmund Emma endeavoured enemies eyes Father Oswald favour fear Frederic friar gave ghost give hand happiness hast hear heard heart Heaven heir of Lovel helmet Hippolita holy honour hope Horace Walpole Jaquez Jerome John Wyatt Joseph justice kinsmen knight Lady Isabella leave Lord Clifford Lord Fitz-Owen Lord Graham Lord Lovel madam Manfred's manner Markham Marquis marriage master Matilda mind mother never noble Old English Baron passion peasant person pray Prince princess replied retired romance secret servants sighed silent Sir Philip Harclay Sir Robert soon soul speak story stranger tell thee Theodore thou art thought tion told took Twyford Vicenza Voltaire Walpole Wenlock William wish words young youth Zadisky
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Page 255 - It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was imagination and improbability: in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has been, copied with success.
Page 13 - Otranto ; a work which, as already has been observed, is an attempt to unite the various merits and graces of the ancient Romance and modern Novel. To attain this end, there is required a sufficient degree of the marvellous to excite attention ; enough of the manners of real life to give an air of probability to the work ; and enough of the pathetic to engage the heart in its behalf.
Page 228 - I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Page 279 - The lower part of the castle was hollowed into several intricate cloisters; and it was not easy for one under so much anxiety to find the door that opened into the cavern. An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now and then some blasts of wind that shook the doors she had passed, and which, grating on the rusty hinges, were re-echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness.
Page 266 - ... reflections on her own sterility, who had given him but one heir. His tenants and subjects were less cautious in their discourses: they attributed this hasty wedding to the prince's dread of seeing accomplished an ancient prophecy, which was said to have pronounced, that the Castle and Lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it.
Page 256 - Desirous of leaving the powers of fancy at liberty to expatiate through the boundless realms of invention...
Page 249 - THE following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
Page 278 - The spectre marched sedately, but dejected, to the end of the gallery, and turned into a chamber on the right hand. Manfred accompanied him at a little distance, full of anxiety and horror, but resolved. As he would have entered the chamber, the door was clapped-to with violence by an invisible hand.
Page 228 - I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it — add that I was very glad to think of anything rather than politics — In short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months...
Page 235 - It was his object to draw such a picture of domestic life and manners, during the feudal times, as might actually have existed, and to paint it chequered and agitated by the action of supernatural machinery, such as the superstition of the period received as matter of devout credulity.