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" I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I 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... "
The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott... - Page 304
by Walter Scott - 1848
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote, from the time I had drank my tea, about six...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph.* The imagination and the developement of character displayed in this little romance have much merit;...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph.* The imagination and the developement of character displayed in this little romance have much merit;...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
..._short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph.* The imagination and the dcvelopemcnt of character displayed in this little romance have much merit...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...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...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph." (3f his compilations, the most useful is, " The Anecdotes bf Painting and Engraving." This was avowedly...
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most ..., Volume 3

John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 450 pages
...the time I had drank tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the...and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness, but, if I have amused you by retracing with any fidelity the manners...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 808 pages
...time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left oft' Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ;...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 4

England - 1819 - 782 pages
...drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and ringers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left off .Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ;...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

England - 1819 - 792 pages
...time I had drunk my tea, ¿bout six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to flnish the sentence, but left off Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea, about six...first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr Walpole, on 80th December, 1764 : " I have received The Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It...
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Lives of the novelists, Volumes 1-2

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...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 six...first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr Walpole, on December 3o, i 764: « I have received The Castle of Otranto, and return you my thanks for it. It engages...
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