 | Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...kiair-casc, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening 1 sat down, and began to write, without knotting in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my haivls, and I grew fond of it. Add, that 1 was very glad to think of any thing rather than polltics.... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1816 - 538 pages
...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 bannister...write, without knowing in the least what I intended td say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I ' was very glad to... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sate down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work... | |
 | England - 1819 - 782 pages
...ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sate down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.' The work... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sate down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...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 bannister...evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing hi the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 340 pages
...natural dream for a head filled, like mine, with (iothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand, in armour....knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. Die work grew on my hands, and 1 grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 346 pages
...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....began to write, without knowing in the least what 1 intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1839 - 674 pages
...gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister 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 1 intended to say or relat..'. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it; so that I was very... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...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 morning I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.... | |
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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 bannister... 
