Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 7Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith E. Littell, 1825 |
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... mysteries and horrors , avenges himself , by playing the gloomy despot ... mystery and of awe , while chap- ter after chapter , and incident after incident ... Udolpho were written , or at least corrected , after the date of this ...
... mysteries and horrors , avenges himself , by playing the gloomy despot ... mystery and of awe , while chap- ter after chapter , and incident after incident ... Udolpho were written , or at least corrected , after the date of this ...
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... Mysteries of Udolpho . It often happens , that a writer's previous reputation proves the greatest enemy , which , in a second attempt upon public favour , he has to encounter . Exaggerated expectations are excited and circulated , and ...
... Mysteries of Udolpho . It often happens , that a writer's previous reputation proves the greatest enemy , which , in a second attempt upon public favour , he has to encounter . Exaggerated expectations are excited and circulated , and ...
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... Mysteries of Udolpho was , at its first appear- ance , considered as a step beyond Mrs. Radcliffe's former work , high as that had justly advanced her . We entertain the same opi- nion in again reading them both , even after some years ...
... Mysteries of Udolpho was , at its first appear- ance , considered as a step beyond Mrs. Radcliffe's former work , high as that had justly advanced her . We entertain the same opi- nion in again reading them both , even after some years ...
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... Mysteries of Udolpho ; but the fine scene , where the monk , in the act of raising his arm to mur- der his sleeping victim , discovers her to be his own child , is of a new , grand , and powerful character , and the horrors of the ...
... Mysteries of Udolpho ; but the fine scene , where the monk , in the act of raising his arm to mur- der his sleeping victim , discovers her to be his own child , is of a new , grand , and powerful character , and the horrors of the ...
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... Mysteries of Udolpho , approach more nearly to the style of Salvator Rosa . The Italian was received with as much ardour as Mrs. Rad- cliffe's two previous novels , and it was from no coldness on the part of the public , that , like an ...
... Mysteries of Udolpho , approach more nearly to the style of Salvator Rosa . The Italian was received with as much ardour as Mrs. Rad- cliffe's two previous novels , and it was from no coldness on the part of the public , that , like an ...
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Page 444 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 381 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Page 177 - HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly: There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest melancholy!
Page 40 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 444 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 233 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Page 120 - I could only apprehend my felicity ; I was too confused to taste it sincerely. I wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years
Page 444 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 444 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow!
Page 177 - Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.