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"The Monk: A Romance"
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Date: 1796
"Wouldst thou again with amorous rage
Inflame my bosom? Steeled by age, Vain boy, to pierce my breast thine arrows are too weak."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1796
"The climate's heat, 'tis well known, operates with no small influence upon the constitutions of the Spanish ladies: but the most abandoned would have thought it an easier task to inspire with passion the marble statue of St. Francis than the cold and rigid heart of the immaculate Ambrosio."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)