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The Romancist and Novelist's Library (1); Fatal Revenge, Or, the Family of Montorio | by C.r. Maturin
The Romancist and Novelist's Library Fatal Revenge Or the Family of Montorio by Cr Maturin - 1 Author:William Hazlitt Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a m... more »illion books for free. Excerpt: He spoke of earthly things in all their excellency and beauty, being bul as a veil spread before the fulness of impassable perfection, to which we are not to look, but through them ; lie spoke of the dissolution of earthly things as but the withdrawing of a veil, when that which it concealed shall break upon us in all its glorious beauty, filling our renewed faculties with a fulness of joy, " such as eye hath not seen, nor ear heard." Ippolitolistened, and was "almost persuaded to be a Christian." CHAPTER V. " Cam sUhito e sylris, macie coufecta suprema ignoti nova forma viri, misernndaque cultu Vrocedit." -- Vibgil. " When from the woods there bolts before our sight, Somewhat betwixt a i?trtal and a sprite, So tliin, eu ubaMly, meagre, and so wan, So hare of fleab, he acaree resembled ?an." -- Dktdbb. SEcOND LETTEE FEOM ANNIBAL. My last conclusion was abrupt ; I broke off in expectation of something important ; I wag disappointed ; the cries I heard were uttered by a servant, who, passing near the chapel, saw, or imagined he saw, something that terrified him almost to death. I listened to his story -- I will listen to such no more ; they unhinge and dissipate the powers which I would wish to concentrate and to fortify. I have a dark, inward intimation that I shall be called to something which will require no common energies of thought and action. The only circumstance of this man's fear worth relating, was, that when he recovered his senses he demanded to be led to my father, and requested his confessor to attend. My father, with a facility that astonished me, consented; but th...« less