 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
 | Horace Walpole - Fiction - 2003 - 364 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 a paragraph.1 The vision of the huge hand crystallized Walpole's desire to reconfigure his passion for... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 836 pages
...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...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...Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." " The Castle of Otranto" is Walpole's only prose work which displays extraordinary powers of mind, or originality... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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