NAPOULE, it is true, is only a very little place on the bay of Cannes; yet it is pretty well known through all Provence. It lies in the shade of lofty evergreen palms, and darker orange trees; but that alone would not make it renowned. Still they say that there are grown the most luscious grapes, the sweetest roses, and the handsomest girls. I don't know but it is so; in the mean time I believe it most readily.
NAPOULE, it is true, is only a very little place on the bay of Cannes; yet it is pretty well known through all Provence. It lies in the shade of lofty...
Matthew Gregory Lewis, who professed to have translated this romance out of the German, very much, I believe, as Horace Walpole professed to have taken The Castle of Otranto from an old Italian manuscript, was born in 1775 of a wealthy family. His father had an estate in India and a post in a Government office. His mother was daughter to Sir Thomas Sewell, Master of the Rolls in the reign of George III. She was a young mother; her son Matthew was devoted to her from the first.
Matthew Gregory Lewis, who professed to have translated this romance out of the German, very much, I believe, as Horace Walpole professed to have take...
Es war ein furchterlicher Abend; ein Donnerschlag verjagte den andern; der Sturm pfif uber die Felder und entwurzelte Eichen, der Regen schos so dicht und haufig, dass es ein Wolkenbruch zu sein schien."
Es war ein furchterlicher Abend; ein Donnerschlag verjagte den andern; der Sturm pfif uber die Felder und entwurzelte Eichen, der Regen schos so dicht...
Ich riss den Faden meiner Erzahlung im vorigen Bande da ab, wo unser Delinquent entgeistert in des Herzogs Arme sturzte; ich knupfe ihn wieder an, die Geschichte weiter zu spinnen."
Ich riss den Faden meiner Erzahlung im vorigen Bande da ab, wo unser Delinquent entgeistert in des Herzogs Arme sturzte; ich knupfe ihn wieder an, die...
