Author: Matthew Gregory Lewis

Cites

• Hor. (1)
  • IN: The Monk: A Romance (1796) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnos lemures, portentaque.
    FROM: Epistles, (-14), Book, Italy
• Pulcy (1)
  • IN: The Castle Spectre (1798) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Io me n'andro colla barchetta mia, Quanto l'acqua comporta un picciol legno; E ciò, ch'io penſo colla fantaſia, Pi piacere ad ognuno è il mio diſegno: Ben fo, che fpeffo, come gia Morgante, laſciato ho forſe troppo andar la mazza; Ma dove fia poi judice baſtante, Materia c'è da camera, e da piazza.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Byron (2)
  • IN: The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis (1839) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hail, wonder-working Lewis
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica (1834) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I would give many a sugar cane, Mat. Lewis were alive again !
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Hor (1)
  • IN: Ambrosio (1800) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, ſagas, Noćturnos lemures, portentaque.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Ambrosio (1800) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power, Witches, and ghoſts who rove at midnight hour.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Castle of Lindenberg (1820) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Raymond, Raymond, I am thine, Raymond, Raymond, thou art mine; When the turret clock strikes one, Expect to see the Bleeding Nun.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William and Middleton, Thomas Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Ambrosio (1800) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lord Angelo is precife; Stands at a guard with Envy; fearce confeffes That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone.
    FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: The Monk (1809) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lord Angelo is precise; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone.
    FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
• Virgil (3)
  • IN: Journal of a West-India Proprietor: Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica (1834) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nunc alio patriam quaero sub sole jacentem.
    FROM: Georgics, (-29), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Adelgitha, Or, The Fruits of a Single Error (1806) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Facilis descensus Averni: Sed revocare gradum Hoc opus, hic labor est.
    FROM: Aenid L. VI, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Adelgitha, Or, The Fruits of a Single Error: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1806) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: “ — Facilis descensus Averni: Sed revocare gradum - Hoc opus, hic labor est.”
    FROM: Aeneid L. VI, (-19), Poem, Italy
• M. G. Lewis (1)
  • IN: Romantic Tales (1809) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: While stranger-eyes, whene'er her form is seen, Own her of captive hearts unrivalled Queen ; While stranger-ears, catching some passive strain, The music of her voice through life retain ; Admired by all, with truth she still may boast, The few, who know her best, admire her most.
    FROM: Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright, (1809), Book, UK
• Crabbe (2)
  • IN: Romantic Tales (1809) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ah ! happy he, who thus in magic themes O'er worlds bewitched in early rapture dreams, Where wild Enchantment waves her potent wand, And Fancy's beauties fill her fairy land.
    FROM: The Library, (1781), Poem, UK
  • IN: Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright (1809) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ah ! happy he, who thus in magic themes O'er worlds bewitched in early rapture dreams, Where wild Enchantment waves her potent wand, And Fancy's beauties fill her fairy land.
    FROM: The Library, (1781), Poem, UK
• Thomson (2)
  • IN: The Anaconda: An East Indian Tale (1813) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As those we love decay, we die in part; String after string is severed from the heart, Till lengthened life, at last but breathing clay, Without one sigh is glad to fall away. Unhappy they, who latest meet the blow, Condemned to weep o'er many a Friend laid low; Led slowly on from partial death to death, Till dying, all, they can resign, is breath.
    FROM: On the Death of Mr. William Aikman, the Painter, (1731), Poem, UK
• William Shakespeare (4)
  • IN: The Anaconda: An East Indian Tale (1813) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: She speaks poniards, and every word flabs.
    FROM: Much Ado About Nothing, (1600), Play, UK
  • IN: Tales of Wonder (1805) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Black spirits and white, Blue spirits and grey, Mingle, mingle, mingle, Ye that mingle may!
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Alfonso, King of Castile (1801) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: For us and for our Tragedy, Thus stooping to your clemency, We beg your candid hearing patiently.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
  • IN: Mistrust; or, Blanche and Osbright (1809) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The bird is dead, That we have made so much on! I had rather Have skipped from sixteen years of age to sixty, To have turned my leaping tilne into a crutch, Than have seen this!
    FROM: Cymbelline, (1623), Play, UK
• Juvenal (2)
  • IN: The East Indian: A Comedy. In Five Acts (1800) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quadringenta tibi fi quis Dens, aut similis Diis, Et melior satis donaret, hotnuncio quantus Ex nihilo fieres, quantus Virronis amicus ! " Da Trebio !"— " Pone ad Trebiqm I"—" Vis, Fratei-, ab ipsis " Ilibus ?" — O nummi, vobis hune praeftat honorem ! Vos eftis Fratres !
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
  • IN: The Love of Gain (1799) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Exemplo quodcunque malo committitur, ipfi Difplicet auctori. Prima eft hæc ultio, quod, fe Judice, nemo nocens abfolvitur, improba quamvis Gratia fallaci Prætoris vicerit urna.
    FROM: Satire XIII, (127), Poem, Italy
• Matthew Gregory Lewis (2)
  • IN: Adelgitha, Or, The Fruits of a Single Error (1806) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis in man’s choice never to sin at all, But sinning once, to stop exceeds his power.
    FROM: Adelgitha Act V, (1806), Play, UK
  • IN: Adelgitha, Or, The Fruits of a Single Error: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1806) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis in man’s choice never to sin at all, But sinning once, to stop exceeds his power.
    FROM: Adelgitha Act V, (1806), Play, UK
• Shakespeare (3)
  • IN: The Love of Gain (1799) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh ! thou fweet King-killer, and dear Divorce Twixt naturalSon and Sire ! thou bright Defiler Of Hymen's purest Bed ! thou valiant Mars ! Thou ever-loved, fresh, young, and delicate Wooer, Whofe blush doth thaw the confecrated snow That lies on Dian's lap !
    FROM: Timon of Athens, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: The Love of Gain: A Poem (1799) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh ! thou sweet King-killer, and dear Divorce "Twixt natural Son and Sire ! thou bright Defiler Of Hymen's purest Bed ! thou valiant Mars ! Thou ever-loved, frefh, young, and delicate Wooer, Whose blush doth thaw the confecrated snow That lies on Dian's lap !
    FROM: Timon of Athens, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Alfonso, King of Castile: A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1801) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: For us and for our Tragedy, Thus stooping to your clemency, We beg your candid hearing patiently.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
• Lucan (1)
  • IN: Tales of Terror (1813) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O miseras Animas! jam vos ego nomine vero Eliciam; Stygiosque Canes in luce superná Destituam : Per busta sequar, per funera, Custos Expellam tumulis, abigam vos omnibus urnis.
    FROM: Phar. Lib. 6., (65), Poem, UK
• Drummond (1)
  • IN: Tales of Terror (1813) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Not undelighted does my mind recall Its infant joys in yonder Gothic hall; - Where still the legendary tale goes round, Of charms and spells, of treasures lost and found, Of fearful goblins, and malicious sprites, . Fnchanted damsels and enamoured knights.
    FROM: Prologue to Persius, (None), NULL, Italy
• Cicero (2)
  • IN: Tales of Terror (1813) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sierro, libentër erro, nec mihi hunc errorem, dum vivo, extor queri volo.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Horat (1)
  • IN: The Monk (1796) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Somflia, tcrrores magieos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnos lemures, pertentaque. Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power, Witches, and ghosts who rove at midnight hour.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Madame d Sevigné (1)
  • IN: Romantic Tales (1809) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Rien n'est plus capable d'oter les bons sentimens que la défiance ; il suffit souvent d'être soupçonné comme ennemi, pour le devenir. Au contraire, la confiance engage à bien faire ; on est toucbé de la bonne opinion des autres, et l'on ne se résout pas facilement a la perdre.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Richard the Third (1)
  • IN: The Bravo of Venice, A Romance (1830) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What black magician conjures up this fiend? What! do ye tremble? are ye all afraid? Alas! I blame ye not, for ye are mortal, And mortals' eyes cannot endure the Devil- Avauut! thou dreadful Minister of Hell.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Thomas Gray (1)
  • IN: Feudal Tyrants; or, The Counts of Carlsheim and Sargans (1807) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The portals sound, and pacing forth With stately steps and slow, High potentates, and dames of regal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go.
    FROM: Ode for Music, (None), Poem, UK

Cited by

• Matthew Gregory Lewis (2)
  • IN: Adelgitha, Or, The Fruits of a Single Error (1806) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis in man’s choice never to sin at all, But sinning once, to stop exceeds his power.
    FROM: Adelgitha Act V, (1806), Play, UK
  • IN: Adelgitha, Or, The Fruits of a Single Error: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1806) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis in man’s choice never to sin at all, But sinning once, to stop exceeds his power.
    FROM: Adelgitha Act V, (1806), Play, UK