THE

BRITISH NOVELISTS;

WITH AN

ESSAY, AND PREFACES

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,

BY

MRS. BARBAULD.

A New Edition.

VOL. XLV.

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THE

MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO,

A ROMANCE;

INTERSPERSED WITH SOME PIECES OF POETRY.

BY

ANN RADCLIFFE.

Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns ;
And, as the portals open to receive me,

· Her voice, in sullen echoes through the courts,
Tells of a nameless deed.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

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NEW-YORK