 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pages
...the uppermost bannister 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 of any thing rather than... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...the uppermost bannister 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 of any thing, rather than... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the morning 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 of any thing rather than... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...the uppermost ttanister 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 of anything rather than... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...the uppermost bannister 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 of any thing rather than... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, withont f the fire. grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it; so that I was very glad to think of anything rather than polities.... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pages
...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic head 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 of anything rather than politics.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1853 - 478 pages
...on the uppermost banister 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, so that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than... | |
 | William Pulleyn - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 474 pages
...on the uppermost banister 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, so that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...the uppermost bannister 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 of anything, rather than... | |
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I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. 
