 ... 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 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1491819Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...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...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; when my hands and fingers... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...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...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
...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 polities. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 450 pages
...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...months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1816 - 538 pages
...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 fond of it. Add, that...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... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...designed to illustrate " the pains of fastidious egotism," in " Calamities of Authors." Vol. ip 100. grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. — Add,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...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...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, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...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, that...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, when my hands and fingers... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...romantic fiction, as well as for historical controversy. what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that...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... | |
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