The Tale of Terror eBook

Edith Birkhead
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about The Tale of Terror.

The Tale of Terror eBook

Edith Birkhead
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about The Tale of Terror.

[79:  Scott, Introduction to The Abbot, 1831.]

[80:  William Godwin:  His Friends and Contemporaries, 1876, vol. ii.
     p. 304.]

[81:  Caleb Williams, ch. x.]

[82:  William Godwin:  His Friends and Contemporaries, vol. i. pp.
     330-1.]

[83:  Political Justice, bk. ii, ch. ii.]

[84:  William Godwin:  His Friends and Contemporaries, vol. i. pp.
     330-1; Preface to 1st edition, 1799.]

[85:  Hermippus Redivivus; or The Sage’s Triumph over Old Age
and
     the Grave
(translated from the Latin of Cohausen, with
     annotations), 1743.  Dr. Johnson pronounced the volume “very
     entertaining as an account of the hermetic philosophy and as
     furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies of the
human
     mind,” adding “if it were merely imaginary it would be
nothing at
     all.”]

[86:  St. Leon, vol. iv. ch, xiii.]

[87:  St. Leon, Bk. iv, ch. v.]

[88:  Lives of the Necromancers, 1834, Preface.  “The main purpose
of
     this book is to exhibit a fair delineation of the credulity
of
     the human mind.  Such an exhibition cannot fail to be
productive
     of the most salutary lessons.”]

[89:  St. Godwin:  A Tale of the 16th, 17th and 18th Century, by
Count
     Reginald de St. Leon, 1800, p. 234.]

[90:  Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 10.]

[91:  Dowden, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 44.]

[92:  Hogg, Life of Shelley, vol. i. p. 15.]

[93:  Cf.  Castle of Lindenberg story in The Monk, and ballad of Alonzo the Brave.]

[94:  A versification of the story of the Wandering Jew, Bleeding
Nun
     and Don Raymond in The Monk.]

[95:  This poem was borrowed from Lewis’s Tales of Terror
(without
     Shelley’s knowledge), where it is entitled The Black Canon
of
     Elmham, or St. Edmond’s Eve
.]

[96:  Letter to Edward Fergus Graham, Ap. 23, 1810 (Letters, ed. 
     Ingpen, 1909, vol. i, pp. 4-6).]

[97:  Letter to John Joseph Stockdale, Nov. 14, 1810.]

[98:  Mme. de Montolieu, Caroline de Lichfield, translated by
Thos. 
     Holcroft, 1786.]

[99:  Mme. de Genlis, translated by Rev. Beresford, 1796.]

[100:  Peter Middleton Darling, Romance of the Highlands, 1810.]

[101:  Regina Maria Roche, The Discarded Son, or The Haunt of the
      Banditti
, 1806.]

[102:  Agnes Musgrave, Cicely, or The Rose of Raby.]

[103:  Aphra Behn, The Nun.]

[104:  Charlotte Smith, Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake, 1790.]

[105:  The Relapse:  a novel, 1780.]

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