 | 1839 - 674 pàgines
...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...the 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 172 pàgines
...staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...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 hands and fingers were so weary that... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pàgines
...I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...fond of it — add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pàgines
...I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...fond of it — add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1842 - 462 pàgines
...staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pàgines
...I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...my tale, which I completed in less than two months, ' In the first edition of this work, of which but very few copies were printed, the title ran thus:—... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1842 - 528 pàgines
...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew loud of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing...completed in less than two months, that one evening 1 wrote from the time I had drunk tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 pàgines
...the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it—add, that I was very glad to think of any thing, rather...my tale, which I completed in less than two months, • In the first edition of this work, of which but very few copies were printed, the title ran thus:—"... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pàgines
...staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the morning I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...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 hands and fingers... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1845 - 492 pàgines
...stair-case, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work...any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engross^d with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the... | |
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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 to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew... 
