 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...most 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...glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In _short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...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 was very glad to think of any thing rather than polities. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that... | |
 | 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
...armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended td say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew...very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. la short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two/ months, that one evening... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...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 • See the whole character, designed to illustrate " the pains of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...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 * See the whole character, designed to illustrate " the pains of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities... | |
 | England - 1819 - 782 pages
...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 " See the whole character, designed to illustrate " the pains of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...which be gleaned subjects for poetry and for romantic fiction, as well as for historical controversy. what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on...politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which 1 completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 372 pages
...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...The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it; so that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with... | |
 | William Pulleyn - London (England) - 1830 - 402 pages
...uppermost bannister 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...The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it, so that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with... | |
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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 of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without... 
