"The climate's heat, 'tis well known, operates with no small influence upon the constitutions of the Spanish ladies: but the most abandoned would have thought it an easier task to inspire with passion the marble statue of St. Francis than the cold and rigid heart of the immaculate Ambrosio."
The Monk: A Romance
12 entries in ESTC (1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>The Monk: A Romance. In Three Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for J. Bell, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T132693">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004888900.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004888900.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004888900.0001.003">Vol. III</a>&gt;<br>
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Pre-published as <u>The Monk: A Romance. In Three Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for J. Bell, 1795). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N61395">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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See also the substantially revised fourth edition: <u>Ambrosio, or the monk: a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes.</u> The fourth edition, with considerable additions and alterations. (London: Printed for J. Bell, 1798). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T146828">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;