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 than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one... The Percy Anecdotes ... - Page 1761839Full view - About this book
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 836 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 anything rather than...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. — Letter to Cule, qth of March, 1763. To Madame du Deffimd he writes : — I have given reins to... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1845 - 236 pages
...which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea till half an hour after one in the morning, when my...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." " The Castle of Otranto" is Walpole's only prose work which displays extraordinary powers of mind,... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1819 - 608 pages
...time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness; but if I have amused you by retracing, with any fidelity, the manners... | |
| American periodicals - 1876 - 880 pages
...time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary that I could not hold the...and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ; but if I have amused you, by retracing with any fidelity the manners... | |
| |