Quotes from John William Polidori

I have likewise heard it stated, that one boy fell a-kicking the coffin on his way to the grave, who is still living and lifelike, and that a girl, as the doctors were cutting her up, threw herself off the table. I cannot vouch for the truth of these singular and cruel incidents, although I heard them related as facts; but with regard to my own case there can be no dispute.

he soon formed this object into the hero of a romance, and determined to observe the offspring of his fancy, rather than the person before him.

El lobo se vestía con piel de cordero y el rebaño consentía el engaño.»

SIR,—Although I sent the following narrative to an Edinburgh newspaper, with the editor of which I was well acquainted; yet he refused to give it publicity, on the ground that it was only a dream of the imagination: but if a man cannot be believed in what he hears and sees, what is he to be believed in?

would paint, to him in all the glowing colours of youthful memory, the marriage pomp she remembered viewing in her infancy;

still he found himself more and more attached to the almost fairy form before him.