Template:RQ:Walpole Castle of Otranto

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Horace Walpole's work The Castle of Otranto (1st edition, 1764 (indicated as 1765); the names of the author and translator are both fictitious). The template can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |chapter= – page 166 contains two chapters; if quoting from this page, specify either |chapter=IV or |chapter=V, depending on which chapter is quoted from; otherwise, the template determines the chapter number if the page parameter is specified.
• |1= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from, in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals (if quoting from the preface). If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11 or |pages=x–xi.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template determine whether the preface is quoted from; otherwise, the chapter number of the work quoted from; and to link to an online version of the work.

• |2=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
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• Wikitext: {{RQ:Walpole Castle of Otranto|pages=4–5|pageref=5|passage=The firſt thing that ſtruck ''Manfred''’s eyes was a groupe of his ſervants endeavouring to raiſe ſomething that appeared to him a mountain of ſable '''plumes'''. {{...}} hat a ſight for a father’s eyes!—he beheld his child daſhed to pieces, and almoſt buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any caſque ever made for human being, and ſhaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.}}
• Result:
  • 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter I, in The Castle of Otranto, , London: Tho Lownds , →OCLC, pages 4–5:

    The firſt thing that ſtruck Manfred’s eyes was a groupe of his ſervants endeavouring to raiſe ſomething that appeared to him a mountain of ſable plumes. […] [W]hat a ſight for a father’s eyes!—he beheld his child daſhed to pieces, and almoſt buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any caſque ever made for human being, and ſhaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.