 ... of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1491819Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...say or relate. The work grew on my htinds, and 1 grew fond of it. Add, that 1 was very glad tothink of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed ill less than two monlhs, that one evening 1 wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock,... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 528 pages
...sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pages
...sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands and I grew fond of it; add that I was very glad to think of anything rather than politics. lu short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1853 - 478 pages
...in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it, so that I was very glad to think of any thing rather...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank tea (about six o'clock) till half an hour past one in the morning, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | William Pulleyn - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 474 pages
...in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it, so that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was BO engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it— add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it— add, that I was very glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | 1860 - 860 pages
...down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to -say or relate. Tlie work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 352 pages
...sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it — add, that I was glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short . I was BO engrossed with my tale, which I... | |
 | 1863 - 394 pages
...down and began to write, without knowing, in the least, what I intended to say, or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my Tale, which I completed in less... | |
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