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" 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 fond of it — add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. "
The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated ... - Page 364
by John Colin Dunlop - 1842 - 423 pages
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing...completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote, from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning;...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very 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...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that 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...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...grew fond of it. Add, that 1 was very glad to think of any thing rather than polltics. In short, 1 was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrute from the time I had drunk ray tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 4

England - 1819 - 782 pages
...of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities of Authors." VoLi. p. 10ft grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. — Add, that I was very glad to think of any...completed in less than two 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,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

England - 1819 - 792 pages
...of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities of Authors." Vol. ip 100. grew on my bands, and I grew fond of it. — Add, that I was very glad to think of any...completed in less than two months*, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, ¿bout six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 808 pages
...of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities of Authors." Vol. ip 100. grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. — Add, that I was very glad to think of any...engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two mouths*, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an...
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The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...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, that I was very glad to think of any thing...completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till hah0 an hour after one in the morning,...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing...completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning,...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 6

1825 - 610 pages
...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing...completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning,...
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