...of the style of any favourite artist. On the Bridge of Sighs, the complaint seizes him very badly. " I could not dine in peace, so strongly was my imagination...affected; but, snatching my pencil, I drew chasms and subterranean hollows, the domain of fear and torture, with chains/racks, wheels, and dreadful engines...

...peace, so strongly was my imagination affected; but, snatching my pencil, I drew chasms and subterranean hollows, the domain of fear and torture, with chains,...and dreadful engines ... in the style of Piranesi." It is the same with music. A bell begins to toll. " Its sullen sound filled me with sadness. I closed...

...whilst passing below ; and believe it is not without cause, this structure is named Ponte dei Sospiri. Horrors and dismal prospects haunted my fancy upon...wheels, and dreadful engines in the style of Piranesi. 1 . . . THE ISLANDS I am just returned from visiting the isles of Murano, 2 Torcello, and Mazorbo,...

...whilft passing below; and believe it is not without cause, this ftrudure is named PONTE DEI SOSPIRI. Horrors and dismal prospects haunted my fancy upon my return. I could not dine in peace, so ftrongly was my imagination affected; but snatching my pencil, I drew chasms and subterraneous hollows,...

...not from the repertoire of Canaletto or Zuccarelli but from the images of another Venetian artist: "Snatching my pencil, I drew chasms and subterraneous...hollows, the domain of fear and torture, with chains, rocks, wheels, and dreadful engines, in the style of Piranesi" (p. 124). This climactic spectacle positions...

...whilst passing below; and believe it is not without cause, this structure is named PONTE DEI SOSPIRI. Horrors and dismal prospects haunted my fancy upon...racks, wheels, and dreadful engines in the style of Piranesi.18 This passage of Beckford formulates in words the immediate effect of 'Gothic' terror that...

...Sospiri and was filled with foreboding: Horrors and dismal prospects haunted my fancy upon my return. l could not dine in peace, so strongly was my imagination...hollows, the domain of fear and torture, with chains, rocks, wheels, and dreadful engines, in the style of Piranesi.148 The infamous Comte de Calgiostro's...

...contaminated by the abodes of punishment 1Beckford 1972, 96-97). Nevertheless he still feels haunted: 'I drew chasms and subterraneous hollows, the domain...wheels, and dreadful engines in the style of Piranesi' 198). But it was ultimately Sterne's sentimentalism that inspired pre-Revolutionary artists such as...