 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1917 - 528 pages
...Romanorum, 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...and surely worthy of a higher place than any living author, be he who he may.' — Preface to Marino Faliero. Is not Romeo and Juliet a love play ? —... | |
 | 1873 - 882 pages
...you remember what Byron said of Horace Walpole ? Here it ¡я, in the preface to Marina Fallero — "He is the ultimus Romanorum, the author of the Mysterious...and surely worthy of a higher place than any living author, be he who he may." Frank. A comical judgment, truly, if sincere 1 Benison. I believe Byron... | |
 | Horace Walpole, Michael Gamer - 2002 - 212 pages
...letters, and of the Castle of Otranto, he is the 'Ultimus Romanorum,'1 the author of the Myterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a...higher place than any living writer, be he who he may. 17. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Review of Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl ofOrford, to Sir Horace Mann,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 528 pages
...tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play Ho is the father of the first romance, and the last tragedy, in our language ; and surely worthy of a higher place than any living author, be he who he may." — Preface to Marino Faliero. Is not "Romeo and Juliet" a lov* play ? —... | |
 | Jerrold E. Hogle - 2002 - 360 pages
...French sources in the tradition of Lewis and Charlotte Dacre, and Lord Byron would praise Walpole as "the father of the first romance, and of the last...language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any livmg writer, he he who he may."6 Praise, furthermore, produced translation and appropriation, especially... | |
 | Samuel J. Rogal - 2002 - 508 pages
...not a puling [whining, whimpering] love play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the first tragedy in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may." — [George Gordon, Lord] Byron [(1788-1824) This passage from Byron's "Preface" to his poetic drama,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 2003 - 364 pages
...puling love-play. He is the father of the first romance and of the last tragedy in our language, and is surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may. [Like other nineteenth-century readers, the essayist William Hazlitt (1778-1830) found the supernatural... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1873 - 810 pages
...um, 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...and surely worthy of a higher place than any living author, be he who he may.' Frank. A. comical judgment, truly, if sincere! Beuison. I believe Byron... | |
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Romanorum," 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 language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be... 
