 | George Crabbe - 1834 - Страниц: 346
...that on the 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 1 intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1836 - Страниц: 344
...that on the 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...any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so impressed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - Страниц: 484
...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 knowing in...— add, that I was very glad to think of any thing 1 The first edition of this work, of which but very few copies were printed, is now extremely rare.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - Страниц: 490
...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 knowing in...relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it—add, that I was very glad to think of any thing 1 The first edition of this work, of which but... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 670
...that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic 1ч"'I in ar-mor. In the evening $ en A W D Ň _ ߎ% R (, 2G J d \-G,XE [ ... * & 0 ޕ , B |j am z#S v } {AN xf&x H% BP n m ; so that I was very glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short, 1 was во engrossed... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 674
...that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what 1 intended to say or relat..'. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it; so that I was very... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - Страниц: 536
...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 knowing in...fond of it — add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - Страниц: 542
...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 knowing in...fond of it — add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - Страниц: 656
...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 knowing in...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - Страниц: 580
...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 knowing in...my tale, which I completed in less than two months, ' In the first edition of this work, of which but very few copies were printed, the title ran thus:—... | |
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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... 
