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  • The scenes of the Illiad illapsed in glowing colours to her fancy -- scenes, once the haunt of heroes -- now lonely, and in ruins; but which still shone, in the poet's strain, in all their youthful splendour.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe 1793

  • The scenes of the Illiad illapsed in glowing colours to her fancy — scenes, once the haunt of heroes — now lonely, and in ruins; but which still shone, in the poet’s strain, in all their youthful splendour.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

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