Vathek, by W. Beckford. [Tr. by S. Henley. Followed by] The castle of Otranto, by H. Walpole [and] The bravo of Venice, tr. from the Germ. [of J.H.D. Zschokke] by M.G. LewisRichard Bentley, 1834 - 218 من الصفحات |
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Abellino Alfonso amongst Andreas appearance Arabian Arabian Nights arms attendants Bababalouk banditti beautiful behold Bianca bosom Bravo caliph Camilla Carathis castle Castle of Otranto chamber Cinthia commanded Contarino cried Manfred D'Herbelot dagger daughter dear death discovered doge Doge of Venice doge's door dost dreadful emir eunuchs eyes Fakreddin Falieri father Flodoardo Frederic friar Genii Giaour Gonzaga Gulchenrouz hand hath hear heard heart Heaven Hippolita hither holy honour Horace Walpole Isabella Jerome Koran Lady Isabella Lomellino look lord Mahomet Manfred's marquis Matilda Matteo melancholy Memmo Morakanabad mother murder never night Nouronihar Otranto palace Parozzi passion pre-adamite prince princess replied retired Rosabella sabres Samarah seemed silence Simurgh Soliman soon soul speak stranger tears tell terror thee Theodore thing thou art thou hast thought tower tremble Vathek Venetian Venice vizir voice Walpole whilst wish words young youth
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الصفحة 117 - PER me si va nella città dolente, Per me si va nell' eterno dolore, Per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore : Fecemi la divina potestate, La somma sapienza e il primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fur cose create, Se non eterne, ed io eterno duro : Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch...
الصفحة 125 - Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd: For contemplation he and valour form'd; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him; His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clust'ring, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
الصفحة 145 - 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 113 - Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
الصفحة 109 - I'll read you matter deep and dangerous ; As full of peril and adventurous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
الصفحة 121 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
الصفحة 129 - Romanorum," the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the last tragedy in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may.
الصفحة 112 - Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
الصفحة 128 - It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ; firstly, because he was a nobleman, and secondly, because he was a gentleman ; but, to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable letters, and of the " Castle of Otranto," he is the " Ultimus Romanorum," the author of the " Mysterious Mother," a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play.
الصفحة 146 - Desirous of leaving the powers of fancy at liberty to expatiate through the boundless realms of invention, and thence of creating more interesting situations, he wished to conduct the mortal agents in his drama according to the rules of probability...