 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 232 pages
...confess to you, what was the origin of this romance ? I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 232 pages
...confess to you, what was the origin of this romance ? I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 208 pages
...confess to you, what was the origin of this romance ? I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | William Powell James - Fiction - 1894 - 264 pages
...dream. ' I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister...great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.' This gigantic hand in armour was, as all readers will remember, the root of the story. Gray reported... | |
 | William Powell James - Literary Collections - 1894 - 264 pages
...Horace Walpole and his friend, the poet Gray. The book was suggested, Walpole tells us, by a dream. ' I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 496 pages
...(March 9, 1765), "what was the origin of this romance? I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that...mine, with Gothic story), and that, on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began... | |
 | Susan Hale - Eighteenth century - 1898 - 334 pages
...confess to you what was the origin of this romance ? I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all I could recover was that...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | Susan Hale - Eighteenth century - 1898 - 360 pages
...was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to... | |
 | English periodicals - 1899 - 640 pages
...the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought I was in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head...mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...origin of this romance? I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all 1 could recover was, that I had thought myself in an...filled, like mine, with Gothic story), and that on (he uppermost Itanister of a errat staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat... | |
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I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that 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 banister... 
