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" Ultimus 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,... "
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts ; with ... - Page xx
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 261 pages
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The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1917 - 528 pages
...prefixed to the correspondence with Sir H. Mann. Lord Byron's words are : ' He is the ultimus Romanorum, the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling lo"ve play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the last tragedy, in our language ; and surely...
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Skräckromantik: studier i tysk och engelsk förromantik

Einar Nylén - 1924 - 320 pages
...som äro allt för överdrivna. Byron protesterar år 182o mot undervärderingen av författaren till The mysterious mother, »a tragedy of the highest...first romance and of the last tragedy in our language. »2) Kritiken hade dock redan nu börjat sätta in; dödsstöten utdelas av Macaulay, som bland all...
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Horace Walpole as a Poet

Paul Yvon - 1924 - 252 pages
...Irene and Johnson himself has often acted contrary to his own advice in his Lives of the Poets. « The Mysterious Mother : a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play... the last tragedy in our language... » BYRON : Preface to Marino Faliero. WALPOLE AS A DRAMATIST THE...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 116

1873 - 882 pages
...of Horace Walpole ? Here it ¡я, in the preface to Marina Fallero — "He is the ultimus Romanorum, the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of...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...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...composition of his Incomparable letters, and of the "Castle of Otranto,* he Is the 'Ultimas Komanorum," ies, the land is gone, And winde lore-play. He Is the lather of the Irrt romance and of the last tragedy In our langnage, and surely...
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The Castle of Otranto

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,...
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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: On the Constitution of the ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 528 pages
...did not admit of exaggeration. "Really, you may learn the fundamental principles of political tevious Mother,' a 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...
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The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

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...
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The Rushton M. Dorman, Esq. Library Sale Catalogue (1886): The ..., Volume 1

Samuel J. Rogal - 2002 - 508 pages
...composition of his incomparable letters, and of the Castle of Otranto, he is the 'Ultimus Romanorum, ' the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling [whining, whimpering] love play. He is the father of the first romance, and of the first tragedy in...
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The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother

Horace Walpole - 2003 - 364 pages
...British Drama, and Byron, who could often be cynical about the artistic successes of others, ranked The Mysterious Mother "a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play. [Walpole] is the father of the first romance and of the last tragedy in our language."2 The novelist...
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