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... seemed to me that it was possible to com- pose a work upon the same plan , wherein these defects might be avoided ; and the keeping , as in painting , might be preserved . But then I began to fear it might happen to me as to certain ...
... seemed to me that it was possible to com- pose a work upon the same plan , wherein these defects might be avoided ; and the keeping , as in painting , might be preserved . But then I began to fear it might happen to me as to certain ...
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... seemed not to observe his courtesy and address . At length he recollected himself and said , " What is your name , young man ? " " Edmund Twyford , " replied the youth ; " and I have the honour to attend upon the Lord Fitz - Owen's sons ...
... seemed not to observe his courtesy and address . At length he recollected himself and said , " What is your name , young man ? " " Edmund Twyford , " replied the youth ; " and I have the honour to attend upon the Lord Fitz - Owen's sons ...
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... seemed an example of patience and resignation ; but then , all at once she renounced them , and broke out into passionate and frantic exclamations . She said that her dear lord was basely murdered ; that his ghost had appeared to her ...
... seemed an example of patience and resignation ; but then , all at once she renounced them , and broke out into passionate and frantic exclamations . She said that her dear lord was basely murdered ; that his ghost had appeared to her ...
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... seemed raised above the world and all its pursuits . He continued wrapt up in mental devotion , till a knocking at the door obliged him to rise and let in his two friends , who came without shoes , and on tip- toe , to visit him ...
... seemed raised above the world and all its pursuits . He continued wrapt up in mental devotion , till a knocking at the door obliged him to rise and let in his two friends , who came without shoes , and on tip- toe , to visit him ...
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... seemed like a clashing of arms , and something seemed to fall down with violence . They started , and Edmund rose up with a look full of resolution and intrepidity . " I am called , " said he ; " I obey the call ! " He took up a lamp ...
... seemed like a clashing of arms , and something seemed to fall down with violence . They started , and Edmund rose up with a look full of resolution and intrepidity . " I am called , " said he ; " I obey the call ! " He took up a lamp ...
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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.