Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnos lemures, portentaque. Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power, witches, and ghosts who rove at midnight hour. Horace...

Methinks, oh! vain ill-judging book, I see thee cast a wishful look, Where reputations won and lost are In famous row called Paternoster. Incensed to find your precious olio Buried in unexplored portf...

The first idea of this Romance was suggested by the story of the Santon Barsisa, related in The Guardian.⁠—The Bleeding Nun is a tradition still credited in many parts of Germany; and I have been told...

Scarcely had the abbey bell tolled for five minutes, and already was the church of the Capuchins thronged with auditors. Do not encourage the idea that the crowd was assembled either from motives of p...

The monks having attended their abbot to the door of his cell, he dismissed them with an air of conscious superiority in which humility’s semblance combated with the reality of pride. He was no sooner...

The Marquis and Lorenzo proceeded to the hotel in silence. The former employed himself in calling every circumstance to his mind, which related might give Lorenzo’s the most favourable idea of his con...

My journey was uncommonly agreeable: I found the Baron a man of some sense, but little knowledge of the world. He had passed a great part of his life without stirring beyond the precincts of his own d...

Here the Marquis concluded his adventures. Lorenzo, before he could determine on his reply, passed some moments in reflection. At length he broke silence. “Raymond,” said he taking his hand, “strict h...

The burst of transport was past: Ambrosio’s lust was satisfied; pleasure fled, and shame usurped her seat in his bosom. Confused and terrified at his weakness, he drew himself from Matilda’s arms. His...

Returned undiscovered to the abbey, Ambrosio’s mind was filled with the most pleasing images. He was wilfully blind to the danger of exposing himself to Antonia’s charms: he only remembered the pleasu...

All the researches of the Marquis de las Cisternas proved vain: Agnes was lost to him forever. Despair produced so violent an effect upon his constitution, that the consequence was a long and severe i...

Ambrosio shuddered at himself, when he reflected on his rapid advances in iniquity. The enormous crime which he had just committed filled him with real horror. The murdered Elvira was continually befo...

His whole attention bent upon bringing to justice the assassins of his sister, Lorenzo little thought how severely his interest was suffering in another quarter. As was before mentioned, he returned n...

All this while, Ambrosio was unconscious of the dreadful scenes which were passing so near. The execution of his designs upon Antonia employed his every thought. Hitherto, he was satisfied with the su...

On the day following Antonia’s death, all Madrid was a scene of consternation and amazement. An archer who had witnessed the adventure in the sepulchre had indiscreetly related the circumstances of th...

The cientipedoro is supposed to be a native of Cuba, and to have been brought into Spain from that island in the vessel of Columbus. ↩...