 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
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1888 - 746 pages
...tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness, but, if I have amused you by tracing with any fidelity the manners... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 414 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.' 1 The work of which the origin is thus de1 Letter to Cole, g March, 1765 scribed was published in a... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 544 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.' 1 The work of which the origin is thus de1 Letter to Cole, 9 March, 1765 scribed was published in a... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 334 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Haven Appleton - 1891 - 282 pages
...the time I had drunk 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... | |
 | 1892 - 886 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 in the middle of a paragraph." Cole derived much pleasure and entertainment from Walpole's story in... | |
 | Susan Hale - 1898 - 336 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... | |
 | 1899 - 640 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." We must probably take this, and similar statements as to other writings, cum grano. The romance is... | |
 | Munson Aldrich Havens - 1901 - 106 pages
...o'clock, till half past one o'clock in the morning, when his hands and fingers were so weary that he could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. When the first edition of this work, of which very few copies were printed, was published, Walpole... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...the time I had drunk 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 and Ismbella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.' The work U declared by Mr. Walpole to be an attempt... | |
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