 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,...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1471819Full view - About this book
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 408 pages
...short," says Waipole, " 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...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph." In the opinion of Sir Walter Scott, "... | |
 | Richard Stuteley Cobbett - Twickenham (London, England) - 1872 - 452 pages
...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half-an-honr after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella in the middle of a paragraph. Mr. Cole expressed in return the pleasure and entertainment... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1873 - 662 pages
...short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening- 1 wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph." PROGRESS OP METHODISM. of the Methodists;... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 612 pages
...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...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ; but... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 612 pages
...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...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. You will langh at my earnestness; but if... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1876 - 454 pages
...less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk tea, about six o'clock, tifl half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, hut left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness,... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 618 pages
...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 ono in tho morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 pages
...than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in lees than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ; but... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Authors - 1880 - 444 pages
...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...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ; but... | |
 | Clara Reeve - English fiction - 1883 - 448 pages
...time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." It does not seem that the authenticity... | |
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