 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - Liczba stron: 524
...written in eight evenings; but the following extract from a letter, by Mr. Walpole, dated March 9, 1765, presents us with a more probable period for...occasionally excites a ludicrous association of ideas; an effect ever fatal to the interest of a narrative of which * the principal object is to excite terror.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - Liczba stron: 530
...(a very natural dream for a head filled like jninc with gothic story); and that on the upperi most banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand...occasionally excites a ludicrous association of ideas; an effect ever fatal to the interest of a narrative of which the principal object is to excite terror.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - Liczba stron: 528
...I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In _short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed...the middle of a paragraph.* The imagination and the dcvelopemcnt of character displayed in this little romance have much merit; but the machinery is too... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - Liczba stron: 450
...the time I had drank 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... | |
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 808
...bower. Yours ever^ about six o clock, till half an hour af- ' ter 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 off Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ; but... | |
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 792
...time I had drunk my tea, ¿bout 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 flnish the sentence, but left off Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - Liczba stron: 524
...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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - Liczba stron: 762
...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....and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." It does not seem that the authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - Liczba stron: 764
...o'clock, till hah0 an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary, that T could not. hold the pen to finish the sentence, but...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." It does not seem that the authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr... | |
 | Scott - 1825 - Liczba stron: 258
...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....and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." It does not seem that the authenticity of the narrative was at first suspected. Mr. Gray writes to... | |
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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... 
