 | Dorothy Margaret Stuart - 1927 - 252 pages
...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...fond of it — add that 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... | |
 | Wayne Andrews - 1990 - 198 pages
...staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. 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 was so engrossed with my tale . . . that one evening I wrote... | |
 | Horace Walpole, Michael Gamer - 2002 - 212 pages
...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...fond of it - add that 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... | |
 | Helene Moglen - 2001 - 238 pages
...staircase 1 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 was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 2003 - 364 pages
...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...fond of it — add that 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... | |
 | Everett Zimmerman - 2007 - 276 pages
...castle" 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" (Correspondence, 1:88; to William Cole, March 9, 1765). Again, the story... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1819 - 608 pages
...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...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 hand and fingers... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1845 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1860 - 836 pages
...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...fond of it. Add, that 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... | |
 | 1876 - 880 pages
...staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. 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 sliort, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less... | |
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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... 
