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The comic valet, Paulo, who insists on being locked up in the dungeons of the Inquisition merely because his master is there, reminds one of Samuel Weller, he is a Neapolitan Samivel. The escapes are Mrs. Radcliffe's most exciting escapes, and to say that is to say a good deal. Poetry is not written, or not often, by the heroine. Why Mrs.
"O, how beautiful!" "I am glad that, for once, I have the good fortune to please you." Claire's happy smile faded. She turned her face away, pretending to busy herself with Radcliffe's books. "I see I have offended once more." She hesitated a moment, then faced him squarely. "There can be no question of your either pleasing or offending me, Mr. Ronald.
It would be a nice inquiry whether the hoopskirt was not introduced it was midway in the eighteenth century, I think at the time of the first budding of romantic sentiment. The "Man of Feeling" came after and Anne Radcliffe's novels. Is it not significant also, in these present days of Russian novels and naked realism, that costume should advance sympathetically to the edge of modesty?
Pope mentions them in his Imitations of Horace, Epistles, ii. i. 183: 'E'en Radcliffe's doctors travel first to France, Nor dare to practise till they've learned to dance. What risks were run even by inoculation is shewn in two of Dr. Warton's letters.
"I can well understand that," said the landlord. "I was looking at it just now; it's as good as ruined, is that chaise. General rule, people don't like chaises with bullet-holes." "Too much 'Romance of the Forest'?" I suggested, recalling my little friend of the morning, and what I was sure had been her favourite reading Mrs. Radcliffe's novels. "Just so," said he.
Bailey's doorstep and made a eloquent appeal in behalf of a free press, concluding with a proposition that the assemblage go to the house of the Mayor of Washington and give him three cheers. This was done, Radcliffe's good nature prevailing, and the mob dispersed peacefully. Dr. Bailey was, however, no novice in dealing with mobs.
Our own chamber was at a vast distance along this passage; those of the rest of the party were on the hither side; but all this immense suite of rooms appeared to communicate by doors from one to another, like the chambers through which the reader wanders at midnight, in Mrs. Radcliffe's romances.
Radcliffe's weird tales of supernatural mystery, which for a time so engrossed the public attention as to lead that "wicked wag," Mr. George Coleman, to regard them as representatives of the class, and to describe how Radcliffe."
Radcliffe's case is mainly, if not wholly, what has been called "the explained supernatural," that is to say, the apparently ghostly, and certainly ghastly, effects are usually if not always traced to natural causes, while in most if not all of her followers the demand for more highly spiced fare in the reader, and perhaps a defect of ingenuity in the writer, leaves the devils and witches as they were.
Radcliffe's adventure tales seem fictitious as well as feeble is because it is the natural outcome of his life: all his interest, his liking, his belief went into the Novels.
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