Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time, Issue 62Yale University Press, 1920 - 108 pages |
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Page 92 - ... his conductor, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the trees that appeared on every side, "stretching their extravagant arms athwart the gloom...
Page 61 - Adriatic, with a saffron glow, while on the marble porticos and colonnades of St. Mark were thrown the rich lights and shades of evening. As they glided on, the grander features of this city appeared more distinctly: its terraces, crowned with airy yet majestic fabrics, touched, as they now were, with the splendour of the setting sun, appeared as if they had been called up from the ocean by the wand of an enchanter, rather than reared by mortal hands.
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Page 22 - Before their author was known, I observed so much of the power and defects of Mrs. Radcliffe's compositions in these dramas, as to believe them her's, and I hear she owns them.
Page 10 - She had also a gratification in listening to any good verbal sounds ; and would desire to hear passages repeated from the Latin and Greek classics ; requiring, at intervals, the most literal translations that could be given, with all that was possible of their idiom, how much soever the version might be embarrassed by that aim at exactness.
Page 87 - A passage leads to the sea,' continued Schedoni, without replying to the question. 'There, on the shore, when darkness covers it ; there, plunged amidst the waves, no stain shall hint of ' ' Hark ! ' interrupted the Marchesa, starting, ' that note again ! ' The organ sounded faintly from the choir, and paused, as before. In the next moment, a slow chanting of voices was heard, mingling with the rising peal, in a strain particularly melancholy and solemn.