 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for blishing Company banister of a great staircase 1 saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled, like mine, with Gothic story), and...bannister of a great 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled, like mine, with Gothic story), and...bannister of a great 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a- very natural dream for a head filled, like mine, with Gothic story), and...bannister of a great 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... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 pages
...which all I could recover was, that I had thought I was in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with 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... | |
 | Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - 1914 - 520 pages
...a dream, naturally it is odd and fanciful. The author supposes that he is in a Gothic castle, and " on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour." For his own amusement he exaggerated the wonder and the mystery of the old stories of chivalry, producing... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1914 - 404 pages
...the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate." 2 The Castle of Otranto is, then, a perfect example of a story developed by getting "actions and persons... | |
 | 1916 - 840 pages
...origin in a dream — "a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story" — and he began to write "without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate." In the original edition he pretended that it was a translation of an old romance that he had found,... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1916 - 362 pages
...its origin in a dream—"a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story"—and he began to write "without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate." In the original edition he pretended that it was a translation of an old romance that he had found,... | |
 | Einar Nylén - 1924 - 320 pages
...which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that...knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. »1) Utom själva impulsen har hans gotiska hem lämnat honom tanken på många detaljer i romanen... | |
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I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost banister of... 
