 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...HAVE received the Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention heref, makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights. We take it for a translation, and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for St. Nicholas.... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...mistake was natural enough in count Algarotti. you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation, and should believe i't to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...HAVE received the Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it It engages our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o'nisthts. We take it fora translation, and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not fur... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...received The Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (ie fa d wq]- ~٬ / O irP vK ] O Vd ͫR7 e V y UZ N Ժ [ u2 } M u F+0 o'nights. We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1904 - 738 pages
...exciting horror with the next. We have gone far since Walpole's Castle of Otranto made its readers " cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." To us the gloomy Gothic vaults and dungeons, the monstrous helmet and its sable plumes seem merely... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pages
...suspected. Mr. Gray writes to Mr. Walpole, on 30th December, 1764: "I have received the Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention...a little; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...received The Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here (ie at Cambridge), makes some of us cry a little; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation : and should believe it to be a true story, * J ' if it were... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...HAVE received the Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here,* makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to-bed o'nights. We take it for a translation, and should believe it to be a true story, if it were... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...received The Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (ie at Cambridge,) makes some of us cry a little ; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights.- We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...received The Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages our attention here, (ic at Cambridge,) makes some of us cry a little ; and all, in general, afraid to go to bed o'nights. We take it for a translation ; and should believe it to be a true story, if it were not for... | |
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