 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 362 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 on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
 | William Powell James - Fiction - 1894 - 264 pages
...dream. ' I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister...great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.' This gigantic hand in armour was, as all readers will remember, the root of the story. Gray reported... | |
 | Susan Hale - Eighteenth century - 1898 - 360 pages
...was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost 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 to... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 480 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, on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...dream for a head filled, like mine, with Gothic story), and that on (he uppermost Itanister of a errat staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the...down and began to write, without knowing in the least »hat I intended to sav иг relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fonà of it. Add, that I... | |
 | 1906 - 1102 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, on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began... | |
 | Hans Reinhard Möbius - English fiction - 1902 - 156 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 on the uppermost banuister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 442 pages
...which all I could recover was that I 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 a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1904 - 496 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 on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Fiction - 1908 - 470 pages
...ancient castle, and that on the uppermost baluster 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 to relate." It was written in two months, and professed to be a translation by "William Marshal, gentleman,... | |
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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... 
