 I have repeatedly laid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and chapters, and endeavoured to construct a story which I meant should evolve itself gradually and strikingly, maintain suspense and stimulate curiosity; and which, finally,...  Waverley Novels - Page xlivby Walter Scott - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 370 pages
...curiosity ; and which, finally, should terminate in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a daemon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I...mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly, and the work is complete long before I have attained the point I proposed. Captain. Resolution and determined forbearance... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1822 - 1072 pages
...curiosity ; and which, finally, should terminate in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a dzeinon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I...mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly, and the work is complete long before I have attained the point I proposed. Captain. Resolution and determined forbearance... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 296 pages
...curiosity ; and which, finally, should terminate in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a daemon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I...; the story lingers, while the materials increase; pay regular mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly, and the work is complete long before I have attained... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 880 pages
...curiosity ; and which, finally, should terminate in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a daanon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I...purpose. Characters expand under my hand ; incidents ее multiplied ; the story lingers, while tbe materials increase ; my regular man. *» turns out a... | |
 | 1823 - 602 pages
...curiosity; and which, finally, should terminate in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a dsmon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I...expand under my hand ; incidents are multiplied ; the »tory lingers, while the materials increase ; my regular mansion (urns out a Gothic anomaly, and thu... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1825 - 434 pages
...fair. If a successful author keeps not the stage, another instantly takes his ground. If a writer lies by for ten years ere he produces a second work, he...mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly, and the work is complete long before I have attained the point I proposed. Captain. Resolution and determined forbearance... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1825 - 280 pages
...curiosity; and which, finally, should terminate in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a daemon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I...mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly, and the work is complete long before 1 have attained the point I proposed. Author. Alas, my dear sir, you do not know... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1877 - 434 pages
...there is a daemon which seats himself upon the feather of my pen when I begin to write and gai4«S* leads it astray from the purpose Characters expand...mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly and the work is done long before I have attained the end I proposed Captain. Resolution and determined forbearance... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1877 - 478 pages
...there is a daemon which seats himself upon the feather of my pen when I begin to write and g»i4^s* leads it astray from the purpose Characters expand...mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly and the work is done long before I have attained the end I proposed Captain. Resolution and determined forbearance... | |
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