THE

BRITISH NOVELISTS;

WITH

AN ESSAY;

AND

PREFACES,

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,

BY

MRS. BARBAULD.

VOL. XLVII.

LONDON:

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THE

MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO,

A ROMANCE;

INTERSPERSED WITH SOME PIECES OF POETRY.

BY

ANN RADCLIFFE.

Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns;
And, as the portals open to receive me,

Her voice, in sullen echoes through the courts,
Tells of a nameless deed.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.