 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...very natural dream for a head filled like mine with gothic story) ; and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour....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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...natural dream for a head filled like' mine with gothic story) ; and that on the upper-. most banister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour....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... | |
 | Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...kiair-casc, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening 1 sat down, and began to write, without knotting in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my haivls, and I grew fond of it. Add, that 1 was very glad to think of any thing rather than polltics.... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 450 pages
...very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister of a great stair-case, I saw a gigantic hand in armour....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... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1816 - 538 pages
...natural dream for a head filled' like mine with Gothic story,) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great stair-case, I saw a gigantic hand in armour....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 I ' was very glad to... | |
 | Books - 1819 - 580 pages
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 | England - 1819 - 782 pages
...natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sate down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.' The work... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sate down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...natural dream for a head, filled, like mine, with gothic story), and that in the uppermost bannister of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sate down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...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....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... | |
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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 filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of... 
