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Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto

  • Enya Almanzaje citiraoпре 3 године
    All night he pleased him­self with vis­ions of love;
  • Enya Almanzaje citiraoпре 3 године
    in which the hearts of both had drunk so deeply of a pas­sion, which both now tasted for the first time.
  • rwambui199922je citiraoпре 2 месеца
    Dur­ing this al­ter­ca­tion, some of the vul­gar spec­tat­ors had run to the great church, which stood near the castle, and came back open-mouthed, de­clar­ing that the hel­met was miss­ing from Alf­onso’s statue. Man­fred, at this news, grew per­fectly frantic; and, as if he sought a sub­ject on which to vent the tem­pest within him, he rushed again on the young peas­ant, cry­ing—
  • Shaelah Wesslingje citiraoпрошле године
    Hor­ace Wal­pole’s father died in 1745
  • Shaelah Wesslingje citiraoпрошле године
    He was born in 1717,
  • b0076373781je citiraoпре 2 године
    ser­vant, who had not stayed long enough to have crossed the court to Con­rad’s apart­ment, came run­ning back breath­less, in a frantic man­ner, his eyes star­ing, and foam­ing at the mouth.
  • b0076373781je citiraoпре 2 године
    It was sug­ges­ted by a dream from which he said he waked one morn­ing, and of which “all I could re­cover was, that I had thought my­self in an an­cient castle (a very nat­ural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the up­per­most ban­is­ter of a great stair­case I saw a gi­gantic hand in ar­mour. In the even­ing I sat down and began to write, without know­ing in the least what I in­ten­ded to say or re­late.”
  • b0192133029je citiraoпре 3 године
    Hor­ace Wal­pole was the young­est son of Sir Robert Wal­pole, the great states­man, who died Earl of Or­ford. He was born in 1717
  • Enya Almanzaje citiraoпре 3 године
    And on whom were thy dreams em­ployed?
  • Enya Almanzaje citiraoпре 3 године
    Can I stoop to wish for the af­fec­tion of a man, who rudely and un­ne­ces­sar­ily ac­quain­ted me with his in­dif­fer­ence?
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