 | Susan Hale - Eighteenth century - 1898 - 360 pages
...panel, did not you recollect the portrait of Lord Falkland, all in white, in my gallery ? Shall I even confess to you what was the origin of this romance...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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...origin and composition of this romance is given by the author himself, in a tetter to a friend : — ' Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this...beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all 1 could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 442 pages
...he gives the following account of its origin in one of his letters to a correspondent : Shall I even confess to you what was the origin of this romance...from a dream, of 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)... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Fiction - 1908 - 470 pages
...CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1765) This story was suggested to Horace Walpole by a dream of which he said: " All I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle, and that on the uppermost baluster of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poets, English - 1912 - 482 pages
...in the morning, to the accompaniment of coffee. In a letter to Cole, 9 Mar., 1765, Walpole writes: "I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which all that I could discover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - England - 1913 - 464 pages
...saying how short a time he took over the work of composition ; of The Castle of Otranto he says : " Shall I confess to you what was the origin of this...which all I could recover was, that I had thought I was in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - Short stories, American - 1914 - 404 pages
...genesis of this kind of tale. It originated in a dream of which in the morning, as the author said, "all I could recover was, that I had thought myself...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - English letters - 1915 - 478 pages
...500 copies.' He gives an account of the origin of the romance in a letter to Cole (9 March 1765): ' I waked one morning in the beginning of last June,...was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . , and that on the uppermost banister of the staircase 1 saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the... | |
 | Dorothy Scarborough - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 362 pages
...the author tells us, the result of an architectural nightmare. Walpole says in a letter: Shall I even confess to you what was the origin of this romance? I waked one morning from a dream, of which all that I could recall was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a... | |
 | E.F. Bleiler - Fiction - 1966 - 356 pages
...panel, did you not recollect the portrait of Lord Falkland, all in white, in my Gallery? Shall I even confess to you, what was the origin of this romance!...an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gochic story), and that on the uppermost hanister of a great staircase I saw... | |
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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 like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost banister... 
