...Ca/ile and Lord/hip of Oirznto Jhotild pafs from the prefent family, whenever the real owner Jhould be grown too large to inhabit it. It was difficult to make any fenfe of this prophecy; and ftill lefs cafy to conceive what it had to do with the marriag^in queftion....

...Cajlle and LardJI,ip uf Otranto Jhould pafs from tht present family , whenever the real owner Jl,ould be grown too large, to inhabit it. It was difficult to make any fenfe of this prophecy; and full lefs eafy to conceive what it had to do with the marriage in queftion....

...usurping family, and in consequence his mind is ceaselessly oppressed by the prophecy of Saint Nicholas that " the Castle and Lordship of Otranto should pass...real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it."" The story begins at a point when the fulfilment of this prophecy is nigh ; at a time, therefore, when...

...the betrothed of his son Conrad. An ancient prophecy that "the castle and lordship of Otranto shall pass from the present family whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it" lends sinister significance to the sudden and fatal descent of a gigantic, black-plumed helmet upon...

...the betrothed of his son Conrad. An ancient prophecy that "the castle and lordship of Otranto shall pass from the present family whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it" lends sinister significance to the sudden and fatal descent of a gigantic, black-plumed helmet upon...

...honoured it sufficiently, whatever rank their suffrages allot to it. THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO A Gothic Story CHAPTER I Manfred, Prince of Otranto, had one son...the marriage in question. Yet these mysteries, or contradiclions, did not make the populace adhere the less to their opinion. Young Conrad's birth-day...

...sufficiently, whatever rank their suffrages allot to it. THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO CHAPTER I A Gothic Story Manfred, Prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter;...the marriage in question. Yet these mysteries, or contradic27 tions, did not make the populace adhere the less to their opinion. Young Conrad's birth-day...

...representation, cannot be represented or contained. At the end of Walpole s novel, then, the prophecy — that "Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever...real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it" (15— 16; Walpole's emphasis) — is fulfilled. After Theodore, the real owner, is abstracted in melancholy...

...van het kasteel instorten, zoals voorspeld in een duistere profetie aan het begin van het verhaal : "That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass...real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it". Alfonso verklaart dat Theodore de kleinzoon en wettige erfgenaam van Otranto is; dit wordt daarna door...

...Manfred has "contracted a marriage for his son" Conrad, because, according to "an ancient prophecy," "the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from...real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it" (15—16, original emphasis). Besides motivating the plot by seeming to provide an explanation of Manfred's...