 | Horace Walpole, William Mason - English letters - 1851 - 478 pages
...impair a memory that is enclosed in so frail an etui. Have you seen the old Baron, a gothic story, professedly written in imitation of Otranto, but reduced...Old Bailey would make a more interesting story. Mrs. Barbut's fragment was excellent. This is a caput mortuum. Adieu. I have not a quarter of a minute to... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1858 - 562 pages
...impair a memory that is enclosed in so frail an etui. Have you seen ' The Old Baron,' a Gothic story,' professedly written in imitation of Otranto, but reduced...say more. 1716. TO SIR HORACE MANN. Thursday, April 90i, 1778. I AH not going to announce more war than by my last : it seems to sleep, like a paroli at... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 560 pages
...some duties or other will impair a memory that is enclosed in so frail an etui. Have you seen ' The Old Baron,' a Gothic story,1 professedly •written...say more. 1716. TO SIR HORACE MANN. Thursday, April 9ih, 1778. • I AM not going to announce more war than by my last : it seems to sleep, like a paroli... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 556 pages
...some duties or other will impair a memory that is enclosed in so frail an (*tui. Have you seen ' T/ie Old Baron,' a Gothic story,1 professedly -written...Mrs. Barbauld's ' Fragment ' was excellent. This is a capnt mart mini. Adieu. I have not a quarter of a minute to say more. 1716. TO SIR HORACE MANN. Thursday,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1880 - 558 pages
...impair a memory that is enclosed in so frail an etui. Have you seen ' The Old Baron,' a Gothic story, 1 professedly written in imitation of Otranto, but reduced...more. 1716. TO SIR HORACE MANN. Thursday, April 9th, 1778. I AM not going to announce more war than by my last: it seems to sleep, like a paroli at Faro,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1891 - 582 pages
...impair a memory that is enclosed in so frail an itui. Have you seen ' The Old Baron,' a Gothic story, 1 professedly written in imitation of Otranto, but reduced...Adieu. I have not a quarter of a minute to say more. 1718. TO SIR HORACE MANN. Thursday, April 9th, 1778. I AM not going to announce more war than by my... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...interest that the earlier work excites. " It is so probable," says Horace Walpole, who read the book, " that any trial for murder at the Old Bailey would make a more interesting story." The supernatural is best justified by the methods of poetry; Miss Reeve attempted its justification... | |
 | Free Library of Philadelphia - 1898 - 112 pages
...Walpole remarked, " it was wholly reduced to reason and probability," and so probable in its incidents " that any trial for murder at the Old Bailey would make a more " interesting story." It is as forgotten as her volume of " Poems," 1769, "published for subscribers," who do not appear... | |
 | John Thomson - 1898 - 112 pages
...Walpole remarked, " it was wholly reduced to reason and probability," and so probable in its incidents " that any trial for murder at the Old Bailey would make a more " interesting story." It is as forgotten as her volume of " Poems," 1769, " published for subscribers," who do not appear... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1902 - 808 pages
...Chambers' s Biographical Dictionary, p. 782. GENERAL Have you seen "The Old Baron," a Gothic story, professedly written in imitation of Otranto, but reduced..."Fragment" was excellent. This is a caput mortuum. — WALPOLE, HORACE, 1778, To Rev. William Mason, April 8 ; Letters, ed. Cunningham, vol. vii, p. 51.... | |
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The Old Baron,' a Gothic story,' professedly written in imitation of Otranto, but reduced to reason and probability! It is so probable, that any trial for murder at the Old Bailey would make a more interesting story. 
