The old English baron [by C. Reeve]. The castle of Otranto, by H. Walpole1820 |
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acquaint affection Alfonso answer apartment attend Bianca blessings brother called castle of Lovel Castle of Otranto chamber child cried Manfred daughter dear death desired door Edmund Emma endeavour enemies eyes Father Oswald favour fear Frederic friar gave gentlemen give hand happiness hast hear heard heart Heaven helmet Hippolita holy honour hope Horace Walpole hour Jaquez Jerome John Wyatt Joseph justice kinsmen knew knight Lady Isabella leave Lord Clifford Lord Fitz-Owen Lord Graham Lord Lovel lord's madam Manfred's Markham marquis marriage master Matilda mother mund never noble OLD ENGLISH BARON Otranto passion peasant person pray prince princess proposed replied retired secret servants sighed silent Sir Philip Harclay Sir Robert soon soul speak story stranger tell tender thee Theodore thing thou art thought tion told took Twyford Voltaire Wenlock William wish words XXII young youth Zadisky
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الصفحة 183 - 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.
الصفحة 205 - 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.
الصفحة 177 - EDITION. 1HE 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.
الصفحة 194 - ... 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.
الصفحة 195 - Oh! the helmet! the helmet!" In the mean time, some of the company had run into the court, from whence was heard a confused noise of shrieks, horror, and surprise. Manfred, who began to be alarmed at not seeing his son, went himself to get information of what occasioned this strange confusion. Matilda remained...
الصفحة 191 - The result of all I have said is, to shelter my own daring under the canon of the brightest genius this country, at least, has produced. I might have pleaded, that having created a new species of romance...
الصفحة 184 - In the former, all was imagination and improbability; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has been, copied with success. Invention has not been wanting; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been totally excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as...
الصفحة 238 - ... indignation rise, and who was touched with the sorrow which he saw he had infused into all the spectators, as well as into the Friar, suppressed his emotions, and putting off his doublet, and unbuttoning, his collar, knelt down to his prayers. As he stooped, his shirt slipped down below his shoulder, and discovered the mark of a bloody arrow. "Gracious heaven!" cried the holy man, starting; "what do I see? It is my child! my Theodore!
الصفحة 260 - Isabella! what ho! Isabella!" — the trembling princess relapsed into her former agony of fear. Theodore endeavoured to encourage her, but in vain. He assured her he would die rather than suffer her to return under Manfred's power; and begging her to remain concealed, he went forth to prevent the person in search of her from approaching. At the mouth of the cavern he found an armed knight, discoursing with a peasant, who assured him he had seen a lady enter the passes of the rock. The knight was...
الصفحة 272 - In this frame of mind, and determined to open her heart entirely to Matilda, she went to that princess's chamber, whom she found already dressed, and leaning pensively on her arm. This attitude, so correspondent to what she felt herself, revived Isabella's suspicions, and destroyed the confidence she had purposed to place in her friend.