 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1904 - 496 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 one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 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 one in the morning. — WALPOLE, HORACE, 1765, To Rev. Wttliam Cole, March 9 ; Letters, ed. Cunningham, vol. iv, p. 328.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 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 one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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 one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the tune 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 pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1912 - 480 pages
...time I had drank 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...finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talk1ng in the middle of a sentence." From Austin Dobson (Horace Walpole; a Memoir, pp. 163-4). 2 This... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poets, English - 1912 - 482 pages
...tale, which I completed in less than two 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 hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - England - 1913 - 464 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 one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1914 - 428 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 one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - English letters - 1915 - 478 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 one in the morning.' " Cambridge. 3 In the original edition it professed to be a translation, the title being, The Cattle... | |
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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 in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that... 
