 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
 | Horace Walpole - 1926 - 338 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... | |
 | Eino Railo - 1927 - 434 pages
...engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time 5 I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." 8 We observe the author's satisfaction with his work and that he was no longer afraid to disclose himself... | |
 | Dorothy Margaret Stuart - 1927 - 252 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. It would be easier to underestimate than to exaggerate the importance of this "historical novel with... | |
 | Dorothy Margaret Stuart - 1927 - 252 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. It would be easier to underestimate than to exaggerate the importance of this "historical novel with... | |
 | 1928 - 432 pages
...had drunk my tea about six o'clock till half-an-hour after one in the morning, when my hand and my fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. One is irresistibly reminded of the 'confounded hand' which 'bothered' Lockhart's friend, who was the... | |
 | E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 pages
...time I had drunk my tea, ahout 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 my sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. Strawberry Hill is... | |
 | E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 pages
...in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish my sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. Strawberry Hill is the setting of Walpole's novel, and even small items of decoration are represented,... | |
 | Wayne Andrews - 1990 - 198 pages
...time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, til 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." This letter was so welcome to Breton that he could not resist the temptation of concluding that Walpole... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 pages
...time I had drunk my tea', he recalled, '. . . 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 . . .'), and by 6 August had finished the novel.9 It would be published at the Strawberry Hill Press... | |
 | Horace Walpole, Michael Gamer - 2002 - 212 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...left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.28 The dream, pointedly, is 'a very natural dream' within the surroundings of Strawberry... | |
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