 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...  Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 281by Nathan Drake - 1810 - 499 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...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...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." It does not seem that the authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr... | |
 | William Pulleyn - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 474 pages
...an hour past one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold my pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." EASTWARD HOE. The title of "Eastward Hoe" was taken from the exclamations of watermen plying for fares... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1853 - 478 pages
...an hour past one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold my pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." EASTWARD HOE. The title of " Eastward Hoe" was taken from the exclamations of watermen plying for fares... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 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...left Matilda and Isabella talking, In the middle of the paragraph "— WdlpoMa Letters. the same character of fictitious writer, embodying, in his second... | |
 | 1860 - 860 pages
...completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea (abont six o'clock) till half an hour after one in the morning,...left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph.—Letter to Cole, yth of March, 1763. To Madame du Deffand he writes:— I have given reins... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 554 pages
...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weaiy, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence,...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... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 352 pages
...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...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." To this dream of a gigantic hand we owe the " Castle of Otranto," the gloomy parent of a gloomy progeny.... | |
 | 1863 - 394 pages
...the time I had drunk 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... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - Authors, English - 1863 - 350 pages
...had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands arid fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." To this dream of a gigantic hand we owe the " Castle of Otranto," the gloomy parent of a gloomy progeny.... | |
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