 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1902 - 430 pages
...fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ; firstly, because he was a nobleman ; and secondly, because he was a gentleman ; but, to say nothing of the composition...Mother,' a tragedy of the highest order, and not a feeling love-play ; he is the father of the first romance and of the last tragedy in our language,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ; firstly, because he was a nobleman, and, secondly, because he was a o not a thought disguises, Whose love is as sincere...When she can change who loved so truly, It feels what ' Ultirans Romanornm,' the author of the Myiterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ; firstly, because he was a nobleman, and, secondly, because he was a Musters.] T is done ' Ultiraus Romanorum.' the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 632 pages
...fashion to underrate Horace Walpole; firstly, because he was a nobleman, and secondly, because he was a gentleman; but, to say nothing of the composition...incomparable letters, and of the Castle of Otranto [1765], he is the " Ultimus Romanorum," the author of the Mysterious Mother [1768], a tragedy of the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...Walpole ; firstly, because he was a nobleman, and, secondly, because he was a gentleman ; but, to «ay now not, nor can trace Home to its cloud this lightning of the mind, But feel the shock renew'd ' Ultimas Romanornm,' the author of the Mysterious Mother, n tragedy of the highest order, and not... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1905 - 396 pages
...to the correspondence with Sir. H. Mann, Lord Byron's words are : — " He is the uitimus Bomanorum, the author of the ' Mysterious Mother,' a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the last tragedy, in our lan; nage; and surely... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ; firstly, because he was a nobleman, and, secondly, because he was a " " X " Otranio, he is the ' Ultimns Romanorum,' the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 pages
...fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ; firstly, because he was a nobleman, and secondly, because he was a gentleman; but, to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable letters, and of the Castle oj Olranto [1765], he is the " Ultimus Romanorum," the author of the Mysterious Mother [1768], a tragedy... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...Sophocles even not excepted.— DRAKE, NATHAN, 17981820, Literary Hours, vol. n, No. xxix, p. 109. He is the ultimus Romanorum, the author of the "Mysterious...tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love play. He is the father of the first^ romance, and of the last tragedy, in our language; and surely... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English essays - 1917 - 528 pages
...tacit excep1 In the memoir prefixed to the correspondence with Sir H. Mann. Lord Byron's words are : ' He is the ultimus Romanorum, the author of the Mysterious...tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the last tragedy, in our language ; and surely... | |
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It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ; firstly, because he was a nobleman, and secondly, because he was a gentleman ; but to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable letters, and of the Castle of Otranto, he is the " Ultimus Romanorum,"... 
