 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
 | 1839 - 674 pages
...relat..'. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it; so that I was very glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed...and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph." CREBILLON. When Crehillon was composing his tragedy of Catiline, a friend called on him, and was surprised... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 172 pages
...which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea till half an hour after one in the morning, when my...Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." ' The Castle of Otranto' is Walpole's only prose work which displays extraordinary powers of mind, or originality... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 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...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 660 pages
...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....that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, hut left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." It does not seem that the authenticity... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 pages
...an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold my pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 574 pages
...an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold my pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness; but if I have amused you, by retracing wiih any fidelity the manners... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold my pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." Horace Walpole, though forming his plan of life chiefly upon a system of personal enjoyment, possessed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 716 pages
...completed in less than two months, that one evening 1 wrote from the time I had drank my tea, abuut six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning,...but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle a paragraph." l do II ¡oes hot seem that the authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected.... | |
 | 1847 - 666 pages
...completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, abont six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning;...that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, bnt left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph." CREBILLON. When Crehillon was... | |
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