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121 " Dashwood’s cronies reputedly held banquets, black masses, and orgies with prostitutes in the abbey, under the Rabelaisian dictum ‘Fay ce que vouldras’ (‘Do what thou wilt’), an "
― Matthew Gregory Lewis , The Monk
122 " The critic Thomas-James Mathias, for instance, compared The Monk with John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—‘Another Cleland "
123 " Eighteenth-century erotic writing tends to be materialist, figuring the body as mechanistic and seeking pleasure in physical rather than intellectual or spiritual passion. The "
124 " Perduto è tutto il tempo Ché in amar non si spènde. "
125 " The Monk was published anonymously in three volumes on 12 March 1796; it sold for half a guinea. "
126 " execrations: A Moment after She repeated her Paternoster:* Now She howled out the most horrible blasphemies, and then chaunted De Profundis,* as orderly as if still in the Choir. In short She seemed a mighty capricious Being: But whether She prayed or cursed, whether She was impious or devout, She always contrived to terrify her Auditors out of their senses. The "
127 " Ambrosio is neither a mechanistic eroticist, nor a promiscuous Sadeian fornicator; rather, he is an obsessive fantasist who serially fixates on the unattainable in order to define his own sense of self. And "
128 " that she had been eviscerated and her guts wrenched out and used as belts, and that her genitals had been mutilated. Whether or not these terrible atrocities actually took place, her brutal execution "
129 " strove to dissipate her melancholy, and encouraged her to look forward to the prospect of happiness. I "
130 " senses forsook me, and I lay without animation on the ground. "
131 " Diavolo! She has left such a scent upon my lips that I shall smell of garlick for this month to come! As I pass along the Prado, I shall be taken for a walking Omelet, or some large Onion running to seed! "
132 " Hush! Father, Hush! You must not talk!""He who imposed that order, knew not how interesting are the subjects on which I wish to speak. "
― Matthew Gregory Lewis
133 " He blushed to see his Countrymen the Dupes of deceptions so ridiculous, and only wished for an opportunity to free them from their monkish fetters. "
134 " Iba a decirte que no puedes emplear de peor manera tu tiempo que haciendo versos. Un autor, sea bueno o malo, o incluso las dos cosas, es un animal a quien todo el mundo se siente con derecho de atacar. Pues aunque no todos son capaces de escribir libros, todos se consideran capacitados para juzgarlo. "
135 " Escribir es una manía frente a la cual ninguna razón es suficientemente sólida; tan fácil sería convencerme a mí de que no ame, como a ti de que no escribas. "
136 " 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, "
137 " Guilt and true courage are incompatible... "
138 " A chaplet* of large grains hung upon her arm, and her face was covered with a veil of thick black gauze. Such "
139 " therefore I desire you to take off your veil immediately. Obey me this moment Antonia, for you know that I cannot bear contradiction— "
140 " Your words repentant and your sighs would prove, Lost is the time which is not past in love. The "