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But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults are impardonable, and merit the sharpest arrows of criticism. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Wretched Girl, you must stay here with me! Here amidst these lonely Tombs, these images of Death, these rotting loathsome corrupted bodies! Here shall you stay, and witness my sufferings; witness, what it is to die in the horrors of despondency, and breathe the last groan in blasphemy and curses! -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Now shame on the coward soul, which wants the courage either to be a firm friend, or an open enemy. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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You are mine, and Heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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That destruction o'er you hovers; Lustful Man and crafty Devil Will combine to work your evil; And from earth by sorrows driven, Soon your Soul must speed to heaven. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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By sad experience I know what sorrows She must endure, who marries into a family unwilling to receive her. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a gulph of devouring flames. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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You too shall know, what it is to love without hope! -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant's! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Artless yourself, you suspect not others of deceit; and viewing the world through the medium of your own truth and innocence, you fancy all who surround you to deserve your confidence and esteem. What -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Be cautious not to utter a syllable! Step not out of the circle, and as you love yourself, dare not to look upon my face! -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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When I said I should die in your service with pleasure, I intended to live in it many long years; since, to tell you the truth, from a child I had always a particular dislike to dying, and I think that with every hour the prejudice grows stronger. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, he was still unable to decide. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Possession which cloys man, only increases the affection of woman -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Folded in your arms, I shall sink to sleep; Your hand shall close my eyes for ever, and your lips receive my dying breath. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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While in each other's arms entranced They lay, They blessed the night, and curst the coming day. Lee. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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But who for a moment can deceive the eyes of love? -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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I will go, said Lorenzo. And Lorenzo stayed, where he was. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Great Heaven! How frail thy creature Man is made! How by himself insensibly betrayed! In -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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The Baroness Lindenberg, as I found afterwards, had long been accustomed to sacrifice the interests of others to her own, and her wish to send Claude to Strasbourg blinded her to the danger of the undertaking. Accordingly, -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame ... -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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You know, Monsieur, that Age is always a ticklish subject with a Woman. Come! come! -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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She was about forty: In her youth She had been a Beauty; But her charms had been upon that large scale which can but ill sustain the shock of years: However She still possessed some remains of them. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Ambrosio, learn to know me better. I love you for your virtues: Lose them, and with them you lose my affections. I look upon you as a Saint; Prove to me that you are no more than Man, and I quit you with disgust. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright,
Conversed as they sat on the green.
They gazed on each other with tender delight,
Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight
The maiden's the Fair Imogene. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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The obscurity of the night was in my favour. For -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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To one laden with crime, death came armed with double terror. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world? -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Did she know the inexpressible charm of modesty, how irresistibly it enthralls the heart of man, how firmly it charms him to the throne of beauty -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
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I must have your soul ; must have it mine, and mine for ever. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis