 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...and actors in the Castle of Otranto. To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend...Richardson had, to me at least, made that kind of writing insup* M. Elie de Beaumont was admitted an advocate at the French bar in 1762. The weakness of his... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 574 pages
...and actors in the Castle of Otranto. To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend...Richardson had, to me at least, made that kind of writing insup* M. Elie de Beaumont was admitted an advocate at the French bar in 1762. The weakness of his... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...and actors in the Castle of Otranto. To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend...Richardson had, to me at least, made that kind of writing insup* M. Elie de Beaumont was admitted an advocate at the French bar in 1762. The weakness of his... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pages
...writing the " Castle of Otranto," it was not so much his intention to recal the exploded marvels of old romance, as to blend the wonderful of old stories with the natural of modern novels.j * " Walpole Letters." Vol. vp 4 f "Walpole Letters." Vol. vi. p. 73. The brilliant success... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1852 - 596 pages
...writing the " Castle of Otranto," it was not so much his intention to recal the exploded marvels of old romance, as to blend the wonderful of old stories with the natural of modem novels.j * " Walpole Letters." Vol. vp 4. f "Walpole Letters." Vol. vi. p. 73. J Among the most... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...actors in the ' Castle of Otranto.' To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend...to wear out any plan whatever ; and if the Marquis do Roselle had not appeared, I should have been inclined to say, that that species had been exhausted.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 554 pages
...actors in the ' Castle of Otranto.' To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend...wear out any plan whatever ; and if the Marquis de Rosclle had not appeared, I should have been inclined to say, that that species had been exhausted.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English letters - 1891 - 580 pages
...actors in the ' Castle of Otranto.' To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend the wonderful of old stories with the natural of moder n novels. The world is apt to wear out any plan whatever; and if the Marquis de Roselle had not... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1904 - 496 pages
...and actors in the Castle of Otranto. To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend...wear out any plan whatever ; and if the Marquis de Rosette had not appeared, I should have been inclined to say that that species had been exhausted.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1904 - 490 pages
...and actors in the Castle of Otranto. To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend...is apt to wear out any plan whatever ; and if the 'Sfunjitis de EoseUe had not appeared, I should have been inclined to say that that species had been... | |
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To tell you the truth, it was not so much my intention to recall the exploded marvels of ancient romance, as to blend the wonderful of old stories with the natural of modern nove,ls. 
