 ... 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
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 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 Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 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...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 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...my tale, which I completed in less than two months, ' In the first edition of this work, of which but very few copies were printed, the title ran thus:—... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1842 - 528 pages
...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew loud of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing...completed in less than two months, that one evening 1 wrote from the time I had drunk tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...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 any thing, rather...my tale, which I completed in less than two months, • In the first edition of this work, of which but very few copies were printed, the title ran thus:—"... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1845 - 492 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...any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engross^d with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 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...completed in less than two months, that one evening 1 wrote from the time I had drank my tea, abuut six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...my hands, and I grew fond of it; so that I was very glad to think of anything rather than polities. nation; and was so desirous of showing them in the...still as much their superior, as when he headed his g drank my tea, abont six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning; when my hands and fingers... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 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, Í was so impressed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | 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,... | |
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