Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, Vol. 2 of 5
The refult of all I have faid, is to {helter my own daring under the cannon of the brightelt genius this country, at lea?, has produced. I might have pleaded, that having created a new fpecies of romance, I was at liberty to lay down what rules I thought fit for the condue't of it but I {hould be more proud of having 1m1tated, however faintly, weakly, and at a -dil'tance, fo ma?erly a pattern, than to enjoy the entire merit of invention, unlefs I could have marked my work with genius as well as with originality. Such as it is.
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